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CORNELIUS ROACH...
Uproar broke forth in John Roach Straton's Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, last week; loud cries were raised for the police. In one corner of the church stood members of the Monday night Bible class, praying, faced by five deacons and their aids...
Uldine Utley, pupil of Evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson and protégée of Calvary Bapist's Pastor John Roach Straton, had brought this abnormality into the congregation last January. Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that...
...John Roach Straton (loud-speaking Fundamentalist) told his Manhattan congregation: "As one I rejoice that Lindbergh did not step out of his plane on the fields of France with a cigaret hanging from the southwestern segment of his lip or a liquor breath upon which the President of the French Republic might have hung...
...qualified as sharps shooters are: P. R. Lincoln '30, Robert Cushman '30, J. S. Lewis '29, A. H. Donaghey '30, R. D. Fielding '30, C. W. Schaubs '29, J. A. Crockett '30, G. D. Roach '30, L. A. Du Recher '30, L. T. Grimm '39, P. A. Newsome...