Religion: Broadway Entertainment

A tall, lean minister sat in a Manhattan church one night last week, weeping gently into a handkerchief and bowing his bald head over a bouquet of yellow roses. What moved Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner to tears was the presence of 1,200 pious people in his Broadway Temple (Methodist) to celebrate the beginning of the 25th year of his work in the Manhattan corner of the Lord's vineyard. For three and one-half hours they listened to songs and praiseful speeches by churchmen, municipal officials, businessmen, Kiwanians. Said New York's District Attorney William C....

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