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...largely financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.?have formed a practice of admitting members from other denominations without immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton of Manhattan and Dr. William B. Riley of Minneapolis. Prolonged applause hailed every fundamentalist speaker. "Praise the Lord," shouted the delegates. The modernists, themselves true and loyal brethren, sat silent. Clearly the fundamentalists had a majority. On the third day excitement reached its height. Yet when the count...
...Manhattan, the American League of Professional Women held a music forum luncheon last week. Two guests of honor were given the same topic: "What shall we do about jazz?" They were Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist, and Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian contralto. Dr. Straton rose first, bit off his words, said loudly, severely...
Said Dr. John Roach Straton, militant Baptist fundamentalist clergyman: "Religion is the foundation of the State and the only bond for decent and orderly society. Anything seeking to overthrow the church is a scoffing at the foundation of government itself. The action of Mr. Justice Mitchell is very wise and very just...
...sturdy growth of this bastard offspring of the more decent journals. The mushroom development to a circulation of 100,000 in less than a year Bernarr MacFadden's "Evening Graphic", trenchantly dubbed the "Porno Graphic", is food for unpleasant thought. It gives some color of justification to Dr. John Roach Straton's arraignment of modern civilization. If in some respects one discerns signs of healthy progress in American life, surely here is a mark of decadence. The thesis which George Jean Nathan presented not long ago in one of his more thoughtful moments may possibly be correct. Although American taste...
...Evolution is a religion and a creed" was the key-note of an address in the Phillips Brooks House last night, delivered by the Reverend John Roach Straton, minister of the First Calvary Baptist Church, New York...