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Under RELIGION in TIME, Sept. 7, comes John Roach Straton, with a tirade against the dance. Question: Are Preacher Straton's thoughts fit for print? Question: Why should a professed follower of Christ, cleanest thinker and liver, hunt for "dirt, present it, exaggerated and made dirtier, obviously by his own interpretation, to a Christian congregation? . . .to whom, by his own admission, such an interpretation had never occurred...
There will also be a series of lectures at the Philips Brooks House. The speakers include Dr. Grenfel, Professor Copeland, Dr. Finley, John Roach Straton, Thomas Mott Osborne, Roger Babson, Arthur Nash, and President Faunce...
...Louisville, northern capital of the territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, the popular and prominent League of America met to elect officers. Tingling with devout recollection of his masterful sermon on the dance, they chose Dr. John Roach Straton,* Manhattan divine, to be Chairman of the Campaign Committee. For President, they chose William Jennings Bryan, Jr., Los Angeles attorney...
Trusting Providence to let fall upon him the mantle of Fundamentalist leadership which the late W. J. Bryan wore without rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...
Married. Miss Hazel Hatfield, daughter of Henry Hatfield, onetime (1913-17) Governor of West Virginia, to John Roach Sproul, son of William Cameron Sproul, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania; in Chester, Penn...