Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigorous Dr. John R. Mott: "A synthesis of Eastern & Western relationships must claim all secular agencies as well as our Christian organizations. . . ." Other speakers pointed out that racial prejudice hampered African Missions, that the Church Charities are joined in "common law marriage" to extraneous economic agencies. Said explosive Dr. Sherwood Eddy, Y.M.C.A. Secretary at large for Asia: "The new slogan is not to evangelize but to Christianize. Missionaries must go to other lands with a gospel of love, not gunboats. We want no such protection...
...Byrne, Miss Emily Rowland, who taught school in New York and Virginia, always found a charm in the monotony of her career. A year ago, the University of the State of New York awarded her the degree of Doctor of Letters; last week she celebrated her 100th birthday in Sherwood, N. Y., where she lives, saying: "Both boys and girls are better than they were fifty years ago. . . . When I was a girl all boys thought that it was the thing to do to be fast and impertinent. . . . The girls in my youth were neither to be seen nor heard...
Died. David Gardiner Tyler, 81, eldest son of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States; at Sherwood Forest, Charles City, Va.; after a long illness...
...told how the slain man had as a boy been skilled in mechanics, had treated school studies as chores essential to be done in spite of dislike, had for two years of his young manhood been undecided whether to study medicine or theology. He took up religion and, with Sherwood Eddy and Henry W. Luce, developed the Students' Volunteer Movement, which at the end of the 1890's did so much to enliven religious activities in U. S. colleges. Having ended Union Theological Seminary studies, he took his wife, who had herself studied medicine, to China. There their baby...
...this list neither Bruce Barton nor Sherwood Eddy is a preacher. Nor are all the others mentioned famed for especial ability as preachers. Obviously the list was fallacious...