Word: sizoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could watch the construction job (not as commonplace a sight in the U.S. as it was a generation ago). Next door other workmen were putting a new face on St. Patrick's. Down the street, the sign on the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas said that Dr. Joseph Sizoo would preach the next Sunday on "When Dawn Comes...
...month ago, the Consistory of New York's Collegiate Reformed Dutch churches proposed to sell Dr. Sizoo's church* for some $3,750,000 to a corporation which planned to build a 50-story skyscraper on the lot. This sum, they said, would pay off the church's mortgage, leave $3,000,000 to build a fine new church in the fashionable East Seventies...
...Joseph R. Sizoo did not want a new church. Sizzled Sizoo: "It is putting thq dollar sign before the cross! I'm not defending brick and mortar. The issue is not, shall St. Nicholas Church be moved - but rather: shall religion retreat!" Dr. Sizoo called his parishioners to a "day of prayer for intercession," took to the air to denounce "the rising tides of secularism." He charged that part of the consistory (33 ministers, deacons and elders) had succumbed to "the lure of material things." "I am reminded," he added, "of what a distinguished Boston judge said when...
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