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John Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist minister, heard "a piece of good fun" last week. A preacheradmirer, living in New Jersey, "nominated" Dr. Straton to be President of the U. S. Said Dr. Straton: "If I were President, I'd try to get Henry Ford to serve in my Cabinet. He's a good Christian. If I were President, I'd call out the Army and Navy, yes, sir! and I'd close the dance halls, the sinks of iniquity, and I'd enforce Prohibition and all the other laws. If I were President, my first...
Among Baptist ministers John Roach Straton and Harry Emerson Fosdick are antithetical-in training, personality and ways of thought. Dr. Straton's religion is absolute-his way or damnation; Dr. Fosdick's religion is expanding -it includes good things of the past as of the present. As professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary and pastor of Park Avenue Baptist ("Rockefeller's") Church, Dr. Fosdick has great influence on influential...
Last week, he, with Dr. Straton and the other members of the Greater New York Federation of Churches attended the Federation's annual meeting; heard Rev. Charles C. Albertson of Brooklyn decry: "There has never been a time when people, especially young people, found it so difficult to believe in God." (In Brooklyn, 90 children, grim, last week proclaimed their membership in a "Society of the Godless"; mocked at school assembly prayers.) ". . . Whether or not professional evangelism has any future, pastoral evangelism has a great future and personal evangelism a greater one. . . ." (In Chicago, Professional Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson...
...confidences of his congregation has heard confessions. But few ministers have cared, or dared, to use the Roman Catholic Church term. Of the few are Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh, Reverend Ralph W. Sockman and Reverend Thomas Guthrie Speers of Manhattan. Not so John Roach Straton. At his fellow Baptist, Harry Emerson Fosdick, he sneered: ". . . Rockefeller's pulpit puppet...
...Lake on "The Modern Trend of Religion," and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick on "The Future of the Church." In addition to these speakers, Raymond Robins spoke on "The Outlawry of War," Prof. A. T. Davison, Prof. J. L. Lowes, and Prof. G. H. Edgell held and Dr. J. R. Straton with Prof. K. F. Mather gave a symposium on "Science and Religion". District Attorney Bucknor gave a lecture for law men, and Dr. G. B. MacGrath a lecture for medical men. The average attendance for all of these meetings has been about three hundred...