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...late Dr. John Roach Straton, scorching, oratorical Pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, who looked often on Manhattan's pleasure domes and called them bad, was survived when he died last year by four sons-Hillyer Hawthorne, preacher; John (Charles, lawyer; Warren Badenock, sculptor; George Douglas, schoolboy...
...Straton admirers interestedly follow the career of son Hillyer Hawthorne, 25, holiest issue of a holy man. He was acting pastor at his father's church until that pulpit was officially filled a few weeks ago by the Rev. Will H. Houghton from Atlanta. Then he considered two calls, one to the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Paterson, N. J., another to the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind. Last week he chose Muncie, where he will, due to the church's size, automatically acquire prominence among Indiana Baptists. Pastor emeritus of the Muncie First Baptist is soldierly...
Deciding to enter the Baptist Church, he was welcomed by the late great John Roach Straton, who called him "one of the world's prophets." But in 1922 he was temporarily reinstated by Bishop Rhinelander, appointed lay reader in St. Paul's Church, Evanston, Wyo. Calling his new parish "the wickedest city in the U. S.," he was sued for libel, deposed. He entered the Methodist Church but soon left town. Before he went he filed suits totaling...
Died. Dr. John Roach Straton, 54, fundamentalist Baptist preacher; in a sanitarium at Clifton Springs, N. Y.; of a heart attack...
...predicted from pulpit of Rev. John Roach Straton that "sin-steeped" Manhattan would be demolished "within one hour...