SENSATION CAUSED
RELIEF TALK CHURCH
.. . NEW YOKE, December 18. A remark -by the pastor, the Rev. Dr Henry Howard, formerly of Mel- * bourne who told hie congregation that .it could “go to bell” if it refused to respond -to a relief appeal, cause a a sensation in the . fashionable Fifth Avenue Congregational Church. It- wag subsequently 'explained the phrase was used in a Biibical sense. After the, sermon,' fn which he .said many educated women were now huddling together in subways fo,. warmth, Dr Howard madl*. :in appeal for the women's division of the Emergency Relief Committee.
The- statement, which contained the startling-phrase was:— 1 “If any of you can view the distress and mi't-fy existing in New York without feeling th 3 urgency of its appeal, all I can -eay is, if these things do Eot interest you, you can go to hell and may your mOney perish with you.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1932, Page 3
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151SENSATION CAUSED Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1932, Page 3
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