Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago, in Argyle, Ill., Pastor Edgar Smith organized a picnic. At the picnic, he chose 31 of the 40 people who live in Argyle to sing in his choir. At first their anthems were jerky. Then they improved. They were asked to give concerts in the towns and villages near Argyle...
...know Beecher-and he is in the vast majority- you give the impression that he was both a rogue and a fool. I wondered at times whether I was reading a review of Henry Ward Beecher or Elmer Gantry. You put them in the same class. "Uncouth. . . buffoon. . . pastor of a flock of golden sheep . . . women fainted when he shouted and roared. . . met charges with a stupid sarcasm." I say I have not read Hibben's book, but if you have reviewed it fairly it must be the most unsympathetic and prejudiced study of a man in the whole...
...Amherst, he married and became a minister. A little man with a juicy, passionate face, he charmed the women of every congregation before which he preached. Men, as a rule, did not like him. After a period of years he found himself at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, the pastor of a flock of golden sheep, from whose charge he derived a yearly income of $20,000, even now a generous stipend for any preacher. No doubt Henry Ward Beecher deserved such recompense for his services; he was called the most eloquent preacher since St. Paul; women fainted when he shouted...
...villagers of Hermosa, between the state lodge and Rapid City, where they had been going to church the past summer, for a lawn social. Hermosa's census shows only a few score of residents, but hundreds acted upon the invitation. The young Reverend Rolf Lium, their summer pastor, stood beside his host and hostess to introduce every one. They had ice cream, cake, a cavalry band...
...governing the Church, its trust: the ministry is "commissioned through an act of ordination, by prayer and the laying on of hands." Nothing could be said about the authority in this commissioning, whether it is primarily by virtue of apostolic suc- cession or by virtue of election by the pastor's contemporaries. The committee on the ministry could only suggest that each sect recognize the authority and appropriateness of the ministers of all other sects...