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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church accepted the resignation of Rt. Rev. Hayward Seller Ablewhite, Bishop of Northern Michigan, ordered his name stricken from its rolls. Reason: the Bishop is serving one to ten years in Jackson, Mich., prison for embezzling $99,000 in diocesan funds (TIME...
...homely Methodist Church on Manhattan's upper west side, audiences of homely Christians listened quietly last week to the warm words of an oldtimer evangelist. "Gypsy" Rodney Smith had visited the U. S. 35 times in the past half-century, but this visit was different. He had been hired this time by the Greater New York Federation of Churches to do something about New York City's 4,000,000 pagans...
Gypsy Smith began evangelizing New York last month in The Bronx, delivered 13 sermons in rich, old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, moved uptown again last fortnight. He winds up his engagement this week in no less august a fane than the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Bishop William Thomas Manning presiding. To his audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith...
...radio preaching: "The Marconi radio . . . is frequently and advantageously put to use in order to insure the widest possible promulgation of all that concerns the church. . . . But let those who fulfill this ministry be careful to adhere to the directives of the teaching church, even when they explain and promote what pertains to the social problem; forgetful of personal gain, despising popularity, impartial, let them speak 'as from...
...during the Spanish War was as near to being neutral as any ranking prelate (TIME, Dec. 26). Moreover, Franco wished to re-establish the 1851 concordat, which would enable him to appoint Spanish bishops, whereas the Vatican favored something more up-to-date. Franco appeared to be dunning the Church for payment for having protected...