Word: rev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rev. Ignacio Valdespino, Bishop of Aguascalientes, Mexico, a good Roman Catholic, died last week in San Antonio, Texas. The Most Rev. Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, archbishop of San Antonio, pronounced a funeral sermon at a solemn requiem mass in San Fernando cathedral. It was a pronouncement not limited to laudations of the dead man's character. Archbishop Drossaerts pointed out that Bishop Valdespino had belonged to the colony of Catholic refugees who had fled to San Antonio from the Mexican government. He commented on the poverty in which many of them have died, saying that the Most Rev. Jose Mora...
...Rev. Pablo Garcia de Jesus Maria of Aguascalientes, who, as he was leaving for exile, gave absolution to a dying man and who was for so doing mutilated by his guards in the ears, nose, tongue and eyes, then killed and dropped off the train...
...matter of electing four bishops out of 100 eager candidates. Wild scenes occurred. Presiding Bishop William Sampson, making himself heard above the storm, cried that a motion to adjourn was out of order. Thinking this an unfair move in favor of a rival candidate for a bishopric the Rev. R. L. Pope of Indianapolis climbed to the rostrum and charged Bishop Sampson with injustice. "You are a liar, sir! Get off this rostrum at once or I'll have you thrown off and out of the building!" Bishop Sampson screeched. A jungle fury lighted the faces of the well...
...Chinese are facing starvation in Shantung province (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) and U. S. citizens are being besought for the comparatively modest contribution of $10,000,000 by the National Committee for China Famine Relief. Last week the N. C. C. F. R. chose as its Chairman the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, writer of daily homilies for the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...
After breakfast, he remains at the table, reads out loud from Sunlit Days (a poem and a prayer for each day of the year). Then a guest reads to him from My Daily Meditation by the late Rev. J. H. Jowett and from a modern version of the New Testament...