Word: congregationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War II has appeared a prototype of the most picturesque character in Preachers Present Arms: the late Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregationalist, father of Marjorie (Live Alone and Like It) Hillis. Because of U. S. "dillydallying" over entering World War I, Dr. Hillis proposed that the tortoise be substituted for the eagle as national symbol. A great Liberty Loan speaker, Dr. Hillis peddled lurid atrocity stories, some of which the Christian Century printed. One of the Doctor's favorites: "When the syphilitic German has used a French or Belgian girl, he cuts off her breasts...
...Michael's Church in London. Vicar Elliott is England's most famed "Radio Parson," has been longer on the British air-seven and a half years-than any other churchman. His League, however, did not begin piling up memberships until he, another Anglican, a Baptist and a Congregationalist vowed themselves to Peace at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Westminster Abbey last Armistice Day. Then, like other Englishmen with a cause in their hearts, they wrote a letter about it to the Times...
Like Thomas Cowan, "Buck" Kester once had a conservative Presbyterian charge (in West Virginia), left it and Presbyterianism together. Now a Congregationalist, he busies himself with lecturing, organizing labor, and escaping from Southern towns which dislike agitators. Once he avoided being lynched by crawling on his belly for a quarter-mile to escape from a Florida town. He explained: ". . . There was nothing to be gained by staying and I was scared." Against the likes of "Buck" Kester, Arkansas and Mississippi planters protested last February, publicly appealing to Southern churches "not to make their tenants and sharecroppers class-conscious...
Typical signers: Manhattan's Congregationalist Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers; Baptist Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; Episcopal Bishop Paul Jones of Yellow Springs. Ohio; United Brethren Bishop Arthur Raymond Clippinger of Dayton, Ohio; Quaker Clarence E. Pickett of Philadelphia; Methodist Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston...
...Congregationalist headquarters at No. 28; Fourth Ave., Manhattan...