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Norway's devout. Democratic King Haakon VII received in audience Rev. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, who had taken his Oxford Groups to Oslo for a House Party...
Then he left the rostrum. What meant so much to Dr. Joseph Henry Beale, professor at Harvard Law School, was whether his Church should delete "Protestant" from its name. A famed authority on Taxation, Public Utilities, Municipal Corporations and, above all, Conflicts in Law, Dr. Beale is also a devout high churchman who for years has been a Cambridge lay Deputy to General Convention. Last week he sat on a commission the majority of which believed it "inexpedient" to change the Church's name. To do so, the majority felt, would alienate Protestants in and out of the Church...
...about Timbuctoo's No. 1 Citizen. Père Yakouba; last week he published the old man's informal but official biography. Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career. Devout Catholics will read it, if at all, as a warning; plain readers, as vicarious adventure...
...Bobby" Edwards, son of devout Congregationalist parents, was a clerk with ambitions to be a minister. He became intimate with his next-door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly...
...thousands of churches throughout the land this Sunday, devout Catholics will drop 1? in a plate in the vestibule, help themselves to copies of a magazine named Catholic Missions. On its rotogravure cover they behold a sea-&-sunset scene captioned: "Enchanted Isles. In the islands of the South Seas 1,566 missioner priests, brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese...