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...final day of Park Street's annual Missionary Conference, and the congregation held nine hours of services to raise funds for the missionaries the church currently supports-a spectacular 106 of them. Pastor Harold John Ockenga (rhymes with talk and pray) was more dynamic and persuasive than ever. "We are aware that there are still unreached tribes and peoples numbering probably 600 million people in the world," he said. "We believe it is our responsibility to get the Gospel to those people...
...Preacher Ockenga, 45, has not been content with merely shoring up Park Street's Protestant fundamentalism against Boston's Roman Catholics and Harvard's intellectuals. He is also part-time president of a theological school in California, a founder and the first president...
...King Tut Shuffle. Harold Ockenga was not always concerned with world evangelism. As president of his Chicago high-school fraternity, a biographer records, "he sparked a dance in the La Salle...
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...
Protestant dissatisfaction over the chaplain shortage also got an airing. Dr. Harold John Ockenga, pastor of Boston's Park Street Church (Congregational), back from visiting Army camps in 36 states, said many had too few chaplains. The 37-year-old minister blamed the dearth of volunteers on "the pacifistic attitude and teaching of the Federal Council of Churches. . . . Thousands of young men now in the ministry have adopted this attitude...