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...Straton is the ablest orator, in my opinion, in the Baptist Church and knows more about the Bible in a minute than I will ever know...
...only Fundamentalists agreed with Judge Black as to even Dr. Straton's religious powers. Non-Fundamentalists regretted that the Governor had given him the publicity he loves, (see RELIGION...
When it became known that the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, was to engage in a debate with Alfred E. Smith (see p. 10), many an honest church man was puzzled and annoyed. The proposed controversy was one in which they might not remain neutral. Their sympathies were not with the presidential candidate. Hence they were forced to take the side of the fundamentalist clergyman. But before they did so, even as he had cast reflections upon Governor Smith's record, they found it advisable to reflect upon Dr. Straton...
...Roach Straton has never achieved unusual prominence except in the negative sense of emerging, at frequent periods, from obscurity. He emerged for the first time from obscurity in Norfolk, Va.; (see p. 10) in Manhattan he has found increasingly ingenious methods of achieving publicity...
...Straton started a crusade against Manhattan "night-life." He spoke from his pulpit of painted women who "plied their trade"; he described with astonishing intimacy the nudity on view in Aphrodite, a current revue. So detailed were his accounts that many members of his congregation deserted it and some of the trustees took exception to his eloquence...