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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baptists famed for liberalism in theology: first among them is Manhattan's Harry Emerson Fosdick. Many have wondered why he called himself a Baptist at all. The answer seemed to be: because he was pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church...
Pastor Helm's letter of resignation to the council said: "I doubt whether any church in the United States has a better background for the appreciation of the practical significance of the religion of Jesus than has Bethel. The first premise of Christianity and its most perfect synonym is brotherhood. To refuse brotherhood to any Christian is the oldest and most heretical blasphemy conceivable. American Christianity is . . . compromised and enmeshed. . . To refuse church membership to anyone not of the same race is to deny the most obvious teaching of Jesus and to give the ethical sanctions of Christianity to race...
Last year the Christian Herald Association, publishers of the Christian Herald, instituted an annual award for "distinguished religious service." The prize: A trip to the Holy Land. First distinguished religious server was Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South (TIME...
...careless and walked too much after my first operation," confessed the grizzled statesman the other day like a penitent schoolboy, 'but the second fixed me up. It was a complete success, complete' The doctors have cured everything. I am quite well again. ... I have been invited to Brazil as the guest of the Government and also to Argentina. I plan to go. After that, if the voyage is not too tiring, I should like to visit the United States...
...Last week Banker John Pierpont Morgan by the purchase of a Tintoretto for a reputed $100,000 made his first addition to his father's $300,000,000 collection of paintings, now partly dispersed...