Word: clergyman
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...Germany has no army, there was no semblance of a military funeral. The handful of old Wehrmacht officers who appeared wore top hats instead of their high-peaked military caps. Instead of a gun-carriage, a common horse-drawn hearse carried the coffin. Said Dr. Ernst Strasser, the officiating clergyman: "We are burying the last of the great Prussians...
...attempt to drive lurid 25-cent editions off State newsstande, Representative James D. Doncaster recommended the establishment of a decency review board to screen such literature. The board would have consisted of three members, one of them a clergyman and the other an educate...
...program (TIME, June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money and personnel in the U.S. for an intensive five-year program of practical aid, on a "village level," in areas that suffer from material want...
However, certain pitfalls await any clergyman, regardless of stature, who steps into active direction of a secular institution. Since he will be a Protestant, he must realize that many Catholic and Jewish students will have already pitched one strike past him. Thus, he will have to do more than smother the natural desire of any clergyman to propagate the creed he has been trained in. He must go out of his way to assure that any "religious guidance" he dispenses represents the lowest common denominator of credo--in fact, no more than the same social gospel PBH has represented...
More specifically, he should not recommend slipping another clergyman into the post of PBH Secretary. For the Secretary bears the brunt of contact with both students seeking a non-denominational program and multi-religious community groups asking PBH's services. And if the Professor has a bit of difficuty shucking his sectarianism, a young and relatively inexperienced Secretary will find it almost impossible. Unless he is a layman, the PBH hierarchy will be steeped in the same aura of cloth and collars as Dwight Hall at Yale, where Catholic and Jewish participation is minimized and social service work does...