Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been shot at twice last spring when he was lambasting St. Louis in a campaign to clean up gambling. Jones- boro was glad to have him back, especially when he went at once to shout defiance at his rival, Rev. Dow H. Heard, 35. Redhaired, rangy, lantern-jawed, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Evangelist Jeffers, Jonesboro believed, was trying to oust Mr. Heard from his pastorate. He had accused Mr. Heard of immorality in Big Spring, Tex. Some of Evangelist Jeffers' men started in an automobile to Big Spring to obtain affidavits substantiating the charge. Quickly two friends...
...Jeffers waved Bibles, sang hymns. Footballer Cox, his father, and Dentist Lile were tried for assault. The case against Father Cox was dismissed. The other two were fined $5 each. Evangelist Jeffers was not present, but reiterated that he would stay in town until "the church gets a real pastor." Glumly, Jonesboro went about its accustomed work, wondered what it had been so excited about...
...PASTOR OF POGGSEE - Gustav Frenssen-Houghton Mifflin...
...Author. Gustav Frenssen, himself a onetime parson, son of a carpenter, resigned his pastorate, but not his profession, in 1902 to write homiletic novels. His manner of writing may seem at first simpleminded, but its energy and innocence grow on you: The Pastor of Poggsee is as good as good bread. Discriminating U. S. readers know Frenssen particularly by one other (translated) book: Jorn...
...Reno's clergy organized against the new régime? Some oppose it, but hope lessly. One apologist for it is Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Case, Methodist pastor who lent his pulpit to Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts during his campaign for re-election last March. Recalling that Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals had called Reno a "compound of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition," Dr. Case said that Reno's churches were wellattended, that the community in general was suffering no bad effects...