On Park Avenue

Important Bible students dined in Manhattan last week and joshed each other, with an undertone of seriousness. John D. Rockefeller Jr. sat at the speakers' table. The gathering was of the Men's Bible Class of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. They were to hear reports of the committee on the new church on Riverside Drive. Close to Mr. Rockefeller were Bruce Barton;* Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation; Alderwoman Mrs. John T. Pratt; Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, onetime pastor of the congregation; and Dr....

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