Word: rev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will attend the President's pleasure in Superior harbor...
...many able candidates for the third, they wrangled and ballotted 19 times without avail. At last the two leading candidates withdrew their names, a Korean lady made a potent speech and the Methodists elected the 33rd Bishop of the Church by a sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ of the Indian Road. No sooner had he received this honor, ultimate for any Methodist and seldom given to a man only 44 years old, than Dr. Jones declined to accept it. Said...
...makes it apparent that Dr. Jones loves and understands the natives of India as well as he loves and understands Christ. It explains his refusal of the high post to which he had been elected. The Methodists did not choose another bishop in his place. Instead they elected the Rev. Edwin F. Lee of Singapore, to be missionary bishop to the Malaya provinces, a position hitherto held by one of the regular bishops of the church. For the rest in the last week of their session, the Methodists refused to abolish life tenure of bishops;* went on record against military...
Lynn Harold Hough, when he retired from the ministry of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, attended a dinner given in his honor. At this dinner there were present a rabbi, Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth-El, and a Roman Catholic priest, the Very Rev. Father John Patrick McNichols, president of the Catholic University of Detroit Father McNichols praised the Methodist preacher in a short speech; then, on behalf of the Catholic institution, he bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws for having displayed "outstanding tolerance...
Eager to establish the rights of atheists in the U. S., Charles Lee Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, chose to send godless propaganda to the Rev. Dr. John