Word: revs
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...Doctor's Discovery. As much as nuclear energy, the population explosion is a product of the Western scientific revolution. In 1798-the year that the Rev. Thomas Malthus "proved" that the earth's capacity to produce food was no match for man's capacity to reproduce -Britain's Dr. Edward Jenner discovered that smallpox could be prevented by vaccination, and thereby opened the road to modern medicine's many techniques of "death control." This knowledge, when transferred from the industrial nations of the West to Latin America, Africa and Asia-where a medical investment...
...seldom used Protestant chapel blazed with candlelight, and an international congregation of young skiers assembled for an English-speaking service. At the altar was a U.S. Presbyterian minister who had returned for the occasion, after having been expelled from Champery 4½ years before for his "religious influence." The Rev. Francis Schaeffer's influence had consisted of providing a small Protestant oasis in the solid, stolid Roman Catholic bishopric of Valais. After serving at churches in St. Louis, Mo., Chester and Grove City, Pa., Philadelphia-born Presbyterian Schaeffer went to Champery in 1949 to help organize Sunday schools...
Next day 25,000 spectators lined Houston's Main Street as the coffin was borne to the Baptist Church where blue and grey honor guards stood shoulder to shoulder. Said the Rev. Mr. Stephen McKenney: "He and all his comrades have kissed the lips of immortality." Then a motorcade formed to escort him 125 miles to family burial grounds at Franklin. Texas. Soon the police-escorted procession was a mile long. Texans with heads uncovered stood by the roadside. Finally, at the Mount Pleasant Baptist cemetery, after three rifle volleys and Taps by a single bugler had echoed across...
...Signed by the Rev. Loring D. Chase of the Congregational Church, the Rev. Oscar H. Wyche of the Community Baptist Church, the Rev. Grant A. Morrill of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rev. Charles L. Austin of the Methodist Church, and the Rev. T. Guthrie Speers Jr. of the Presbyterian Church...
Vova Marchenko was three months old when his parents took him to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Magnitogorsk (pop. 284,000) to be baptized by immersion, as is the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Rev. Ivan Scherbatov lifted little Vova from the font, the baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest...