Word: roomiest
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Back in New York, Dr. Newton became pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity which he gave up in 1925 because of the ''arid liberalism" of Manhattan theology. He went over to the Episcopal Church which he called, in the words of Phillips Brooks, "the roomiest church in Christendom." Dr. Newton needed room. Burly, round-faced, sharp-eyed, a fluent preacher, he had brought with him poetic mysticism without losing any of his old-time Baptist zeal. An authority on Abraham Lincoln, he read 2,000 works before writing Lincoln and Herndon. For McCall's Magazine...