Word: chaplains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GRACE OF GOD is called down daily upon the Senate and the House by Chaplains Ze Barney Thome Phillips (right in cut below) and James Shera Montgomery, respectively. House Chaplain Montgomery (Methodist) was less flowery than Senate Chaplain Phillips (Episcopalian). On opening day last week the latter began, "God of our fathers, Fountain of light and love, before whose boundless gaze the seasons roll in majesty and might, and man, Thy miniature divine, was made to walk the earth in joy; incline, at this momentous hour of the newborn year, our thoughts to prayer, our lips to praise...
Last week the 125 chaplains who tend the 130,000 souls of the U. S. Army were given a new head. Appointed as their chief for a four-year-term was Lieut.-Colonel Alva Jennings Brasted, 57, of the Third Infantry at Fort Snelling, Minn. Graduated from Des Moines College, the University of Chicago and its Divinity School, Chief Chaplain Brasted was a Baptist minister before he entered the Army as a first lieutenant in 1913. He served at U. S. forts and camps, went to France in 1918, returned to minister at more forts and camps. A cultured, diffident...
...chaplain of the Tower has the smothered brothers carried across the courtyard to the White (because occasionally whitewashed) Tower and with a prayer has them buried under the winding staircase...
...Saxon theological students marched into town, brown uniformed and carrying complete Army equipment, even campaign knapsacks. Wags called them "God's New Storm Troops." Newly enrolled, they had been sent by onetime Corporal Adolf Hitler as a guard of honor for his leather-lunged friend, onetime Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. recently elected Evangelical Bishop of the State of Prussia (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week Dr. Müller was about to mold what amounted to a new German Evangelical Church. He wanted no trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken churchmen. The militant Saxon...
...kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring's behest Nazi Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller who is Catholic Chancellor Hitler's candidate for eventual election as Reichsbischof or "Bishop of the United German Evangelical Church." Both No. 1 Nazi Hitler and No. 2 Nazi Göring like Chaplain Müller's deftness in de-Semitizing the Bible...