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...anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for September publication by Harcourt Brace & Co., who brought out Papini's Life of Christ. The collection is open to all creeds and all varieties thereof. Readers of TIME who desire to nominate sermons should address Dr. New ton at 76th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan...
...pastor for students of the Episcopal Church at Cornell University has written a book on undergraduate (male and female) religion. Pessimistically he says: "The youth of our day in the universities has concluded that religion is being presented in a dead language, and is wondering what it is all about. There is a linguistic stalemate between the generations; the game is off; neither can move on the same board. So that today, when we speak to undergraduates in even the most familiar terms of the language of religion, we mean one thing (the fruit of our maturer reflection and experience...
...Baptists concluded their annual conference at Milwaukee (TIME, June 9), by compromising on the war issue.* A resolution was introduced declaring that the Baptist Churches would not support War. It was rejected in favor of the usual resolution that War is undesirable. Colored Members. Dr. L. K. Williams, pastor -of Olivet Baptist Church of Chicago, "largest Protestant Church in the world," spoke on "Colored Baptists of America." Said he: "In 1865 there were about 400,000 Baptists of color. . . . They rallied to it (The Baptist Church) in larger numbers than to all other churches combined and more than they...
Wallace E. Brown, pastor of University Church, Syracuse...
...Edwin Winterborne, pastor of the Faith Tabernacle at Lebanon, Pa. (TIME, May 19), was forcibly inoculated for diphtheria. Edwin had forbidden his flock to call physicians during an epidemic of the disease; this had resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably...