NOTED BAPTIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 7

NOTED BAPTIST.

DR. J. R. STRATON DEAD. (Received 11.30 a.ru.) CLIFTON SPRINGS (N.Y.), Oct. 29. The death was announced on Tuesday of Dr. John Roach Straton, noted militant fundamentalist Baptist.

Dr. John Roach Straton was born at Evansville, Indiana, in 1575. He studied at the University o£ Chicago, and at the Boston school of oratory and interpretation of literature. In 1900 he was ordained a Baptist minister, and was pastor of the Second Church of Chicago, the Seventh Immanuel Church of Baltimore, the First Church of Norfolk, and of the Calvary Church, New York, in succession between the years 1900 and 1918. He was a trustee of the Anti-Saloon League of America. He was winner of the intercollegiate oratorical championship, and also won the £200 prize given by the Commercial Club of Portland, Oregon, for an article on "Portland and the North-West," and that offered by the Anti-Saloon League for the best essay on '"The Mental, Moral, Phvsical and Economic Cost of the Liquor Traffic-." He wrote several books, the best known of which are: "The Salvation of Society," "The Menace of Immorality in Church State," "The Heavenly Home," Church v. Stage," and "Our Relapse Into -Paganism."