Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sermons in and out of a church where precedent does not allow women the right to preach. An Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then...
This commencement was part of the 14th International Convention of Sister Aimee's Foursquare Gospel Church. Delegates from 357 U. S. and Canadian churches, foreign missionaries and 12,000 Los Angeles faithful heard Mrs. McPherson preach thrice daily, attended a Pentecostal Fire Rally lasting from 6 a. m. until midnight and involving shouting, ''speaking in tongues," sermons on such subjects as Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which...
Angelinos rated Sister Aimee's 14th convention as one of her quietest; this year there was no street parade. Mrs. McPherson, hard as she works and well-gowned, flashing-eyed and well-preserved as she is at 46, is no longer the sole, monopolizing evangelist of California's poor in spirit. A plague of quarrels and lawsuits has rained upon her the year past, with her onetime lawyer, her one-time publicity woman, her onetime business manager, her daughter Roberta, her "Ma," Mrs. Kennedy, and finally with the equally flashing-eyed woman whom she hired as associate nearly...
...proposing the meeting, the Columbia Board of Student Representatives declared that "it has occured to the members of our board that many of these problems (of student government) are common to our sister institutions," and that a Conference with the discussions of these problems in mind and the resultant exchange of ideas would be of mutual benefit...
...England, there was an influenza epidemic and no doubt about it. Queen Elizabeth was unable to attend the accession ceremonies of George VI because she had influenza. The new King's sister, Princess Mary, suffered an attack, as did the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. Last week Queen Mother Mary took sick. Observed the London Times: "Whole households are being affected and considerable dislocation of business is taking place." The Sunday Dispatch: "1,000,000 persons are down with...