Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, the apostles of Jesus Christ were mystically fired with the impulse to continue his teachings. Ohio churchmen were fired last year with an impulse to celebrate the 19th Centennial of the Pentecost, which was the founding day of the Christian church, and this they did last week in Columbus. Ohio usually has four separate annual conventions under the auspices of the Ohio Council of Churches (17 Protestant denominations) for pastors, laymen, churchwomen, youths. For the centennial Pentecostal celebration, all four conventions were lumped...
From time to time throughout the celebration week, four young ladies billed as the Gloria Trumpeters appeared dressed in flowing togas and blew sweetly upon burnished horns. Certain pastors joined in a dramatic exhibition entitled "Who Killed Earl Wright?" in which the deplorable results of bootlegging and alcoholism were made manifest. The theatrical climax of the week occurred when 1,200 Columbus churchmembers acted for four nights in a luxurious pageant called "The Church Triumphant," conceived by Helen L. Willcox of Pasadena. Its prelude, six episodes and finale showed scenes of various religious significance, including the dedication of Constantinople...
Many religiously-minded moderns believe that unless organized religion stops seeking old, elusive gods and identifies itself with scientific humanism in an attempt to improve Man, it is doomed to perish from the earth. Five able pedagogs subscribed to this belief in a letter which they sent last week to many a U. S. scholar, author, teacher, scientist. The letter began by stating that the Society of Friends (Quakers) is one body in which modern thinking and religious impulses may be reconciled. Excerpts...
...week (Feb. 9-22) campaign for funds will be directed by Herbert H. Blizzard of Audubon, N. J., active American Legionary, prime proponent of the Chapel scheme. Estimated requirement: $150,000. Let donors address: Bayard R. Kraft, 525 Cooper St., Camden...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 57, energetic pastor of Manhattan's Broadway Temple (Methodist Episcopal), for the construction of which he raised $5,000,000. Dr. Reisner is chairman of the Church Advertising Group of the Advertising Club of New York; author of Church Publicity, Workable Plans for Wideawake Churches, Roosevelt's Religion. He once arranged to have Contralto Louise Homer sing, and Actor Fred Stone speak, to publicize his church...