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Chicago editors' stomachs were less delicate. Despite the fact that William Randolph Hearst opposes capital punishment, his Herald & Examiner gave the picture a full page, tacked on a homely sermon against crime by Rev. Thomas Anderson, religion editor. Next day the Herex ran all six pictures and the Hearst American slapped one across Page One with a homily by Rev. Preston Bradley, publicity-loving dean of the Chicago clergy...
...Religious Digest, edited by Rev. Dr. Bernard J. Mulder, 39, Reformed Church minister of Grand Rapids, Mich. Resembling the Readers' Digest in format, this monthly ($3 per year) culls and condenses articles from such journals as Anglican Theological Review, Church Management, Religious Telescope, Character, includes book reviews, sermon outlines, pious "features...
...However successful the "American brand" of Catholicism was, there remained some nervous concern in 1924 when Patrick Hayes arrived in Rome to receive his red hat. He looked too young to be a Cardinal. And he shocked many a Roman when he preached his first sermon in his titular church in English. Then the new Cardinal cabled home: "My blessings to Little Old New York." That, eleven years later, the Pope chose his "dear little brother" Hayes to send to Cleveland rather than Boston's imperious O'Connell, Philadelphia's autocratic Dougherty or Chicago's cheery Mundelein may mark...
...Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
Daniel Jenkins became a Baptist minister. Soon Minister Jenkins preached a sermon on "The Harvest Is Great but the Labor ers Are Few." persuaded his congregation to help him found an orphanage for poor black moppets. That was in 1891. Daniel Jenkins proceeded to rid Charleston of its roaming, thieving "Wild Children." In two buildings in the city, in farms and schools outside it, he has cared for as many as 536 orphans at a time, today has some 300 in his charge. Of the thousands of Negroes turned out of the Jenkins Orphanage at 14, he claims that less...