Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourteen-year-old John is the hero of Go Tell It on the Mountain, a first novel by a 28-year-old Negro who sometimes writes with the powerful rocking rhythms of a storefront-church meeting. Author James Baldwin's own father was a Harlem clergyman, and the church scenes in go Tell It are as compelling as anything that has turned up in a U.S. novel this year. Watch Preacher Elisha: "At one moment, head thrown back, eyes closed, sweat standing on his brow, he sat at the piano, singing and playing; and then, like a great black...
...said Benson, he had often voiced doubts as to whether a military man should be in the White House. Answered Eisenhower: All the more reason to get good civilians in the Cabinet-like Benson. Benson's third reason was the one he felt most strongly: he was a clergyman, one of the Twelve Apostles who guide the Mormon Church. No clergyman should have to take a job where politics might compromise his principles. That was the opening for Ike Eisenhower's clincher. "Mr. Benson," said he, "we have a mandate from the American people to restore their faith...
Buck heads a six-man committee which is trying to find a clergyman to conduct Memorial Church services, direct P.B.H. activities, and serve as a University professor of Christianity. He met with his group three times before spring vacation...
...wait until they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled out a dwarf cigar at a church meeting, Dibelius' goatee shook. "Nein, Bruder, nein," he said, proffering a cigar of his own, "if you must smoke a cigar, smoke a real...
...Visible Church. When Dibelius became general superintendent of the Kurmark district in 1925, he was virtually the first German clergyman to drive his own car. Using the car, to the bewilderment of the pastors under him, he, was able to visit his 35 church districts in 42 days. "I told my pastors," he recalls, "that I wanted to be the bishop of the visible church, not the invisible...