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...Straton, who is pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City, has become nationally prominent during the last few years by his vigorous campaign against vice in New York, and by his fearless expression of his beliefs from the pulpit. Because Dr. Straton does not mince words in his sermon, his doctrines have been accused of being "revolutionary", and an open bid for sensationalism. Dr. Straton, in replying in the New York Times to a specific criticism of sensationalism made by a brother clergyman about a year ago, denied that he had ever exceeded the bounds of pulpit...
...Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, said: "Our practice of excluding members of other denominations unless they are baptized again in our way (immersion) is out of harmony with the spirit that is growing in the churches." He indicated that his church would no longer insist on immersion...
When John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, learned that Dr. Potter was planning to radio-broadcast his principles he cried : "If that fellow Potter keeps on I'll have to get out a warrant for his arrest on a charge of grand larceny. He cribbed my idea of a Christian hotel and, like young Lochinvar, ran boldly away with it before we even had time to catch our breath after the first announcement of the project. Now he has just dodged into the limelight with the idea of broadcasting the Bible. We originated this at Calvary...
...John Roach Straton, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York, has accepted an invitation from the Harvard Christian Association to speak at the University on March 25, on the subject of "Evolution versus God," officers of the association announced last night...
...Albert Edwin Keigwin testified to having had 'direct communication with God. He is pastor of a church which claims the largest Presbyterian membership in New York...