Word: stratons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will also be a series of lectures at the Philips Brooks House. The speakers include Dr. Grenfel, Professor Copeland, Dr. Finley, John Roach Straton, Thomas Mott Osborne, Roger Babson, Arthur Nash, and President Faunce...
...Louisville, northern capital of the territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, the popular and prominent League of America met to elect officers. Tingling with devout recollection of his masterful sermon on the dance, they chose Dr. John Roach Straton,* Manhattan divine, to be Chairman of the Campaign Committee. For President, they chose William Jennings Bryan, Jr., Los Angeles attorney...
...sermon given at many U. S. metropoles, Dr. Straton describes the evils Df dancing, which he regards as worse than "hugging on the sofa." Thus : "In the case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity ! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily con tact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
Trusting Providence to let fall upon him the mantle of Fundamentalist leadership which the late W. J. Bryan wore without rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...
...Straton is keen for the idea. Five of nine trustees are against it. One Judge Black, a trustee favoring it, called for the dismissal of one Buzbee, an opposing trustee, from his post as church attorney at $10,000 per year. The meeting dismissed Mr. Buzbee, 95-24. One of the five opposition trustees declared that only the trustees could dismiss him.. There were violent words. Finally, Mr. Buzbee appealed to Dr. Straton to go to God in prayer. Dr. Straton replied he had spent all night in prayer and that God had led him to an assurance that...