Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mister Nims' or, if they prefer, since many are from the South, 'Preacher Nims' or 'Brother Nims.' " Lutheran ministers are properly called "pastor" and, although some high-church Episcopalians prefer to be called "father," most agree with the verse written by Episcopalian Henry Lewis, chaplain at the University of Michigan's Medical Center...
...Each religion would have a chapel of its own. The Protestants, being in the majority, got the largest, and since the academy service is fairly formal, the chapel was endowed with lofty grandeur. The Roman Catholic chapel and the Jewish place of worship are underneath, which caused one Catholic chaplain to observe: "The Protestants are nearer to Heaven, but they need the head start." The Catholic chapel, with its gentle arches and stonework, suggests the architecture and masonry of the Romanesque cathedral. The Jewish chapel is housed within a round wooden screen from which all structural elements have been eliminated...
Last week the National Council of Churches announced that a Protestant chaplain at last has been assigned to the post. He is the Rev. Donald Roberts, 35, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Tonawanda, N.Y. Pastor Roberts will take his wife and seven-month-old daughter to Moscow, although there is no more assurance than ever that the Kremlin will resolve the "administrative" difficulties that have kept the Protestants out all these years. In other words, Roberts will have no church at all in Moscow. When the flock arrives on Sundays, it will meet in the front parlor...
...twelve men crouching behind the tank were cut down. A Venezuelan navy chaplain stepped into the street and walked from body to body calling "Hijo, hijo" (Son, son) until he found one badly wounded soldier still alive. He tried to lift the wounded man, and a burst of machine-gun fire spattered at his feet. The wounded man started crawling out of the line of fire, and the rebels finished...
Died. The Right Rev. Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton, 71, Dean of Windsor since 1944 and as such, chaplain to the first laymen of the Anglican Church, the late King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in Windsor, England...