Rev. B.T. Hurley Ordered Out of Rumania, Feb. 12, 1925

Tar Heel Missionary Must Leave Rumania. . . Rev. Ben T. Hurley, Native of Randolph County, Ordered Out of That Country

Wake Forest, Feb. 2—Ben T. Hurley, mentioned in Saturday’s Associated Press dispatches as having been ordered by government authorities to leave Rumania within 15 days, is a graduate of Wake Forest College in the class of 1921. He attended the Southwestern Theological seminary after leaving Wake Forest, and for the past year has headed a theological seminary in Bucharest as a missionary for the Southern Baptist convention. Hurley is a native of Millboro, Randolph County, and married an Anson County girl. The press dispatches out of Bucharest state that no charges have been preferred against Mr. Hurley, but add that under the law of Rumania, aliens may be deported for teaching doctrines contrary to those accepted in the country, the American consulate of Bucharest is interceding for Rev. Mr. Hurley, the report continued.

From the front page of The Graphic, Nashville, N.C., Feb. 12, 1925

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