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...churchwomen met in the Hartman Theatre, named after the late Dr. Samuel S. Hartman, inventor of "Peruna," sensational oldtime patent medicine (which once contained about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading...
...impulse to celebrate the 19th Centennial of the Pentecost, which was the founding day of the Christian church, and this they did last week in Columbus. Ohio usually has four separate annual conventions under the auspices of the Ohio Council of Churches (17 Protestant denominations) for pastors, laymen, churchwomen, youths. For the centennial Pentecostal celebration, all four conventions were lumped...