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...Walker's own pastorate is the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. He is 66 years old and during his lifetime has been an increasingly potent advocate of Prohibition. In the long, well-considered, closely reasoned statement which he issued last week, he said: "More than 40 years ago I entered into the fight while a pastor in the South,* a section most conservative in the matter of mixing politics and religion. We were given the unqualified support of all good men, regardless of party, and no one ever intimated that we were doing anything more than our plain duty...
When urbane Dwight Raymond Meigs resigned his headmastership in 1922 Mr. Wendell became treasurer of The Hill School. Dr. Boyd Edwards, pastor of the Hillside Presbyterian Church, Orange, N. J., became headmaster...
Rotary International was internationally roasted last week by a Catholic bishop in Spain and a Methodist pastor in Manhattan. Because Rotary clubs seem to him to omit the religious idea, because it is "damnable for individuals or societies to try to moralize with a naturalist or atheistic doctrine," the Bishop of Valencia issued a bulletin discouraging Catholics from-joining the clubs...
...Jesus came to New York today, He would not be identified with any . . . Rotary club," said the Rev. John A. Vollenweider, associate pastor of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. "He [Christ] . . . was mindful of the need of those who were rich in this world's goods, but had a sense of spiritual poverty...
...think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase of the appointment was that from the time Calvin Coolidge was president of the Massachusetts Senate (1914-15), William Fairfield Whiting has believed him a man of destiny. He believed even more faithfully than Mr. Coolidge's political pastor, the late great Winthrop Murray Crane. In 1920 a delegate to the Chicago convention, Mr. Whiting voted to the bitter end to head the ticket with Mr. Coolidge. Then, after Mr. Crane and Senator Lodge and the rest of the Massachusetts men had capitulated to the Ohio idea, Mr. Whiting pushed...