Word: rev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Rev. Dr. Frank William Bible, 60, since 1923 executive secretary of the central district of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; after long illness; in Chicago...
...rest of the world is wrong, and will be painfully proved so by some spectacular, millennary cataclysm. Some cater to adepts of what Dr. David Starr Jordan called "sciosophy" ("systematized ignorance"). Out last week was a book about these teeming little sects, result of 15 years of study by Rev. Dr. Elmer Talmage Clark of Nashville. Tenn., secretary of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South...
...most of his parishioners of Holy Trinity Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, in a down-at-heel section of St. Louis, Rev. Sophrony Balaban, with his neat black beard, his hefty frame, his genial smile, seemed a fine figure of a man. Twirling a big walking stick, Father Balaban made a point of circulating in his parish to collect contributions for the church, often turned up at night in Serbian haunts, where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone...
...Winchester went last year the superior general of the order, Very Rev. John B. Harney. He was not satisfied that his priests were getting out among the 175,000 people (375 of whom are Catholics) who inhabit their parish of 13 counties. Father Harney returned to Manhattan. A lay friend suggested that a trailer-chapel, such as many a minister now employs in rural districts, might be helpful. The friend supplied $5,200 for a trailer, which was specially built, named St. Lucy,- and turned over to two young priests, Rev. James F. Cunningham and Rev. Thomas M. Halloran...
When in 1794 James Boswell lay dying, he wrote to his brother in London, asking him to deposit ?5 to the account of a Rev. Mr. Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted...