Word: organists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothers and sister stared wide-eyed at the hand-colored slides shown by missionaries at their local meetings. And in 1913, when the whole school was talking about how Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the famed organist and musicologist, theologian and physician, had turned his back on Europe's honors to establish a jungle mission, Emma's heart took fire...
...church immediately to wait for the service, "thus relieving the family of the distressing practice of open-casket viewing." ¶ "The burial service is a regular congregational service in the life of the church family . . . Since church services are integral centers of our parish life, fees to clergy, choir, organist or for use of church building for burial service must not be considered...
...seems like fantasy to him, and for a while, he feels that every man is given one vocation from his parents and one from God alone. In the final act, as Simpkins assumes the role of the Christ-symbol, he finds that his real father was a second-rate organist, and the woman who raised him from infancy, the Mary-symbol, is his mother, Now he can be happy, his own will (or his God-given characteristic) is in harmony with heredity. His music, which was once only a mystical religion, now becomes his existence...
...There is only free will or realization to him whose will is perfectly attuned. Simpkins is God-like when he discovers that he wants what he should be, and Eggerson wants nothing, wished for three things, and in fact gets them all. Simpkins, in the end, will become the organist in Eggerson's small town chapel, live with the Eggerson's and study for orders. He who seeks nothing, but has faith, will inherit the earth...
...series was the product of the same writing factory that also churned out The Rover Boys, today produces, in addition to the new Tom, such solid moneymakers as The Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew books. Originator of the assembly-line idea was an immigrant German organist's son named Edward Stratemeyer, who, before his death in 1930, fed a whole stable of writers with plots, supervised their finished products, and made it a point to deal with his authors singly. One Victor Appleton, for example, was carefully kept from meeting any other. Today, Founder Stratemeyers daughters...