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Uldine Utley, pupil of Evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson and protégée of Calvary Bapist's Pastor John Roach Straton, had brought this abnormality into the congregation last January. Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that...
...this Pastor John Roach Straton was responsible, cried five deacons at the church meeting last week. The antics must cease. Indignant, members of the Bible class, huddled together like college students yelling for their team, prayed that the Holy Spirit strike Deacon John Hurst, chairman of the Evangelistic committee, in salvation or else in punishment. Before police might come, sober members of the congregation hushed the malcontents. The deacons resigned...
Then she was NOT almost six feet tall. Mrs. Nation in 1906 spoke in the Church that I was pastor of in Perry, Okla. I am 5 ft., 9. Mrs. Nation was not as tall as I. I think you were about right in saying she weighed 175 pounds. She was not to exceed...
...need not fear being interpreted as a champion of divorce. Dr. Silver's divorce took place a long time ago. He has never remarried and has stricken mention of an unhappy episode of his youth from public records of his life. His reputation is high and enviable, as Nebraska pastor (1894-1901), as; U. S. Army chaplain (1901-10), as mission secretary for the southwestern U. S. (1910-13), as chaplain of West Point...
...Jason Noble Pierce (President Coolidge's Congregational pastor in Washington, D. C.) was sued for $50,000 libel by one Howard T. Cole, U. S. Shipping Board engineer, who complained that Dr. Pierce had sent deacons to spy on his actions with young women, then charged him with moral turpitude in letters recommending his dismissal by the Shipping Board. Mr. Cole was not a member of Dr. Pierce's church...