Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology will debate the Reverend Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, on the general subject "Evolution", on the evenings of May 13 and 14, at Dr. Straton's church. Professor Mather was the chief defense witness in the Scopes trial at Dayton, Tenn essee...
...there was a show in Manhattan which needed publicity, it was theirs. They had a suspicion that the constituency of the second largest and indisputably grossest tabloid in Manhattan was not of such a high order of humanity but that it would applaud the spectacle of its pastor and master, hoist with his own porno-petard...
Misha Auer, as the young lieutenant, clicks his heals and salutes his superiors in convincing fashion, while Leonard Mudie is particularly well suited for the role of the pastor who was neither a hypocrite nor a fool...
...John E. Williams, Vice Chancellor of Nanking University, was the sole U. S. citizen killed, last week, in China. An earnest and simple Christian, he was held in affectionate esteem by thousands of Chinese. Of him Dr. Keigwin, pastor of the Manhattan congregation which maintained Dr. Williams in China, said, on learning of his death, "Jack Williams was one of the best friends China ever had.... If he could speak he would say he accounted it a privilege to go to the Cross as Christ went...
...France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told to rejoice and to go to work winning new souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices of such sensationalists as Rev. William A. Sunday and Rev. Aimee...