Word: congregationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brickers. Candidate Bricker was brought up as a Congregationalist, his wife as an Episcopalian. For the past twelve years they have been active members of the First Community Church (with members representing 27 sects) in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. They attend services faithfully, have refused a regular pew, sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School...
Secretary Goodall, a Congregationalist, was turned down for missionary work because of poor health. So he became the London Missionary Society's secretary for India, the South Seas and Papua. He likes to putter in his garden, play the violin, go to the theater with his wife, a doctor. He reads Anthony Trollope, Charles Lamb, John Donne, can take Hemingway "in small doses." On his office wall is a photograph of himself taken in India. It shows Mr. Goodall in shorts, squatting before a bearded Indian Christian. Says the International Missionary Council's new secretary: "That is symbolic...
...always tries, even when worrying about the Sisyphean task of teaching the illiterate three-fifths of humanity (some 1,200,000,000) how to read. Since 1930 lean, leathery Frank Laubach, a Congregationalist missionary, has made considerable headway with that enormous task. He and unnumbered thousands of other people, using his special teaching charts, have armed unknown and unknowable scores of thousands of Asiatics, Africans and Latin Americans with the double-edged tool of literacy...
Urging delegates to "think deeply or be damned," young Congregationalist Dr. Harold J. Ockenga, Association president and pastor of Boston's big Park Street Church (TIME, April 5), led off with an exhortation on literal v. liberal Christianity, passed naturally into a subject dear to all Fundamentalists...
...Republican, Rotarian, Congregationalist, author (15 books), Will White is always an editor first...