Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Rev. Douglas Cedarleaf, 31, decided to take a hand. First, he preached a sermon, "Vandalism in Throop Street," to his Erie Chapel Presbyterian Church (white) congregation (which included the Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible...
...royal over Henry Wallace almost drowned out the scuffle over the appointment of long, lanky Aubrey Williams as Rural Electrification Administrator. But last week the scuffle was still going on: it had shifted from politics to religion. In a telegram to Tennessee's Senator McKellar (a Presbyterian), the Rev. Joseph Broady (a Presbyterian) of Findlay, Ohio charged that Williams was "utterly unworthy for any Government position" because he had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." (This apparently referred to the fact that after being helped through college by the Presbyterian Church, Williams was not ordained a minister, instead almost became...
...Rev. David S. Burgess, Manhattan Congregational minister, cried that the attack was "unChristian and un-American." Requiring every Government official to accept the divinity of Christ, said he, "would bar all Jews, nonbelievers, and a good percentage of Protestants from state and federal appointments. If it had been applied in the past, it would have eliminated many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from participating in national affairs." He might have added Presidents Taft and the two Adamses, Justice Brandeis...
...money was raised for a brick, dirt-floored, basement; it would be the foundation of a new church building, and could serve as a meeting place meanwhile. Then the congregation settled down to collecting the $50,000. It took 21 years-until Nov. 23, 1942. Pulpit-filling (236 Ibs.) Rev. J. H. Dotson promptly started a building fund, installed three small boxes near the door for contributions...
Occasionally, a Thurber Male copes with dreadful reality by fleeing from it. Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) is, in his escape, the dauntless Commander Mitty ("Throw on the power lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We're going through!"). He is also the world-famed Dr. Mitty, taking over the crucial operation when other specialists are baffled, and the Defendant Mitty who is afraid of nobody...