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Last year, many a Fundamentalist reproached Dr. John Roach Straton, Fundamentalist thunderer, when he invited Uldine to his Manhattan temple to speak. The Bible, they said, forbids women's appearance in the pulpit. Fearless Preacher Straton permitted her to proceed, and she gave a sermon based so fundamentally upon the Ark of the Covenant that it soothed the hearts of the reproachful ones. But later in Madison Square Garden she was charged by atheists with violating the child labor laws by preaching for money...
Upper berths, speeches, meals ordered on the dining ear with the confidence of a vaudeville trouper, oratory, ecstasies of religious passion, testimonials, quick little dancing steps, trips to foreign lands, Cuba, Milwaukee, Youngstown, dolls, John Roach Straton, Fresno, Aimee McPherson, cinema shows, school, tutor, lollypops,-God, salva- tions. Dr. Cadman...
...John Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist minister, heard "a piece of good fun" last week. A preacheradmirer, living in New Jersey, "nominated" Dr. Straton to be President of the U. S. Said Dr. Straton: "If I were President, I'd try to get Henry Ford to serve in my Cabinet. He's a good Christian. If I were President, I'd call out the Army and Navy, yes, sir! and I'd close the dance halls, the sinks of iniquity, and I'd enforce Prohibition and all the other laws. If I were President, my first...
Among Baptist ministers John Roach Straton and Harry Emerson Fosdick are antithetical-in training, personality and ways of thought. Dr. Straton's religion is absolute-his way or damnation; Dr. Fosdick's religion is expanding -it includes good things of the past as of the present. As professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary and pastor of Park Avenue Baptist ("Rockefeller's") Church, Dr. Fosdick has great influence on influential...
...listened to the confidences of his congregation has heard confessions. But few ministers have cared, or dared, to use the Roman Catholic Church term. Of the few are Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh, Reverend Ralph W. Sockman and Reverend Thomas Guthrie Speers of Manhattan. Not so John Roach Straton. At his fellow Baptist, Harry Emerson Fosdick, he sneered: ". . . Rockefeller's pulpit puppet...