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Uproar broke forth in John Roach Straton's Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, last week; loud cries were raised for the police. In one corner of the church stood members of the Monday night Bible class, praying, faced by five deacons and their aids...
Uldine Utley, pupil of Evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson and protégée of Calvary Bapist's Pastor John Roach Straton, had brought this abnormality into the congregation last January. Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that...
...this Pastor John Roach Straton was responsible, cried five deacons at the church meeting last week. The antics must cease. Indignant, members of the Bible class, huddled together like college students yelling for their team, prayed that the Holy Spirit strike Deacon John Hurst, chairman of the Evangelistic committee, in salvation or else in punishment. Before police might come, sober members of the congregation hushed the malcontents. The deacons resigned...
Pastor John Roach Straton hastened to write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers...
Later, and in a more quiet mood, Pastor Straton found the opportunity to say: "... While Warren [his son] was praying, the power of God came over him just as it did over Paul and struck him down in the dust, as it came in ancient times over whole companies of men. I am not ashamed of it, nor is my son ashamed of it.... I am not a publicity hound.... I have been fighting unrighteousness since I came down to New York, and I have been doing it in a corner. What I would rather do than anything else...