Career
He worked as a clerk for 35 years for Hope Natural Gas Company (now absorbed into ExxonMobil) while writing, editing and publishing his magazine, and serving his church, until he retired early due to Hodgkins" disease. Two years subsequent to his retirement he died. In 1937 Dodd founded The Faith magazine, where he served as editor for many years.
Initially the primary focus of The Faith was advocating for observation of Jewish holy festivals on the part of its Christian readers but in the early 1940s Dodd took up the sacred name cause as well.
Having worked so closely together over so many years they undoubtedly influenced one another. Melton says that Dugger accepted the same basic theology as Dodd.
She specified that Dodd convinced Armstrong of Greenberry G. Rupert"s (author of The Yellow Peril) assertions that observing Hebrew holidays is mandatory for a Christian.
