Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat smaller percentage (88%) are critical of the minister who "is not effective in winning decisions for Christ" -though only 66.4% disapprove of the parson who "does not hold evangelistic meetings." The south registered the most interest in evangelism, the far west the least...
...might say, 'Try religion.' Why should I? I don't feel a sinner, and, anyway, you haven't seen our parson. He isn't even a man. So far as I can see, the churches seem to have plenty of troubles of their own without bothering them with mine. Squabbling and preaching are all they're good for, and I can get along without either, thank...
During his 50-odd years of farming in Iowa's Warren County, squinty-eyed old Ed Russell had received many a pastoral call. But never had he seen a Methodist parson like pretty, plump Bobby-Soxer Ruth Greenwood. Last week, Bible in hand, she came from Pleasant Hill Church ready to chat with Ed, read some Scripture, and pray...
...Negley Parson, onetime foreign correspondent, exhibitionist autobiographer (The Way of a Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...
Neighborhood Talk. Wrote Baptist Parson J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., long known as the "wild man of the Southern Baptist Church": "Since you have come out and endorsed Communistic Russia, the worst bunch of bandits in history, you should resign instantly . . . the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention...