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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Jean Conover Norwood, daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Norwood, famed Manhattan pastor; to Malcolm Campbell McMaster, son of Rev. Edward A. McMaster, Williamstown pastor; in Manhattan; by their fathers...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, missionary, onetime president of St. Paul's University, Tokyo, and first Japanese Bishop of the Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kwai (Holy Catholic Church of Japan), of heart disease; in Tokyo. Consecrated Bishop in Dec. 1923, his first act was to set about the restoration of his diocese, laid waste by earthquake three months before...
HEAVY LADEN-Philip Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). The Rev. Hugh McGreggor, lion of the Lord, cleaned up a saloon-ridden Ohio town, survived two flesh-and-blood wives and one great War, and reaped as reward a luxurious country-club parish in the "Gilt-edged suburb of America." His pulpit thunderings were consistently concerned with Faith, and helped considerably to deaden his own still small voice of doubt. But Ann, his modernist daughter, suspected him of puritanical hypocrisy, and flung herself the more violently into a materialistic existence that was promiscuous, not to say debauched. McGreggor, sensual himself, imagined her life...
Solemn and deep-voiced Professor Jabavu, of the South African Native College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in the rural districts there were thousands of people who could read, but that they had no books...
...avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those in which it would have been regarded as presumptuous to take any serious consideration of the creeds which Christianity aims to supplant, and even more...