Word: pastor
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Fifth largest religious group in the U. S. are the Negro Baptists. Four years ago their adult membership was 2,914,482.* Largest Protestant church in the world is Chicago's Olivet Baptist church, membership 12,000. Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, urbane pastor of Olivet, has been president of the Negroes' National Baptist convention for eight years. Last week he called the convention to order in Chicago. More than 50,000 delegates were in the city. They thronged through the streets. They filled the Coliseum. They conducted a "grand musicale" (1,000 choristers), street parades, an athletic carnival...
Died. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ramon M. Mestres, 66, longtime pastor of Carmel Mission (Calif.) where in 1899 he married Lou Henry and Herbert Clark Hoover; recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from King Alfonso XIII of Spain for his restoration of Carmel Mission; after a long illness; at San Jose...
...Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving of Baltimore, nephew of Bishops George Herbert Kinsolving of Texas and Lucien Lee Kinsolving of Brazil; to replace Bishop-elect Henry Knox Sherrill as rector of Trinity Church, Boston. (Trinity Church called Bishop-elect Sherrill when he was 32. Russell Henry Stafford became pastor of Trinity's neighbor. Old South Congregational, when...
Paul Bustill Robeson was born in Princeton, N. J., where his father was pastor of the Presbyterian Negro Church. Paul was the youngest of eight children. When the family moved to Somerville, N. J., Paul won many an honor in high school for high marks, all-round athletic ability. He was the third Negro to enter Rutgers. "When he graduated in June 1919, he had won his Phi Beta Kappa key, and had been selected by Walter Camp as end for his annual All-American football team. . . . He had won 12 letters. . . . He delivered the Commencement oration...
...Beaven, 48, has been president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School the past year. For 20 years he was pastor of Rochester, N. Y.'s Lake Avenue Baptist Church, a congregation which has furnished three presidents of the Northern Baptist Convention-Dr. Beaven, Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery (daughter of a onetime minister of that church), Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour (Dr. Beaven's predecessor as minister of the church and president of Colgate-Rochester, now president of Brown University) (TIME...