Word: protestantitis
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No Negro need feel ashamed of liberal arts colleges for the race. . . . The writer, a Protestant Negro, ineligible to attend or teach at New Orleans' Xavier (TIME, Oct. 24), invokes Protestant blessings on the enterprise, thanks God for Mother Katherine Drexel whose Catholic philanthropy promises to give Louisiana Negroes...
Zealous and sturdy, the oldtime missionary stepped confidently into a hero's role. He had no backing of wealth, no organization of boards and committees. But behind him was a fresh, vigorous British and U. S. religious awakening; before him the duty, as held by nearly every Protestant church...
Conscious of this tradition of oldtime missionary virility, the Appraisal Commission which surveyed foreign missions for laymen in seven U. S. Protestant Churches (TIME, Oct. 17), looked critically at those who carry on the work today. Said its reports during the past fortnight :
All Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon...
Putting aside for the moment this large order, the Lutherans took up other things. The 560 delegates in Philadelphia represented 30 U. S. and three Canadian synods, with 962,461 communicants. The three Canadian synods petitioned the convention to let them out, pleading that as an independent, patriotic group they...