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...have come here?" asked the black-robed pastor...
...What is it to be Christian?" asked the pastor...
...Chicago for the World Council of Churches assembly (see RELIGION), Germany's famed Pastor Martin Niemöller lit a long cigar and discussed tobacco as the hallmark of the theologian. Puffed he: "If he smokes cigarettes, he's liberal. If he smokes cigars, he's orthodox. If he smokes a pipe, he's dialectic. If he doesn't ( smoke, then he cannot be a theologian." Niemöller then admitted that the theory was not his, but that of Switzerland's pipe-smoking Theologian Karl Barth...
Sunday Morning Tag. Teddy carried daughter Alice "pig-a-back" every morning, and she took to addressing him somewhat irreverently as "Now, pig!" Little Kermit had fun "turning somersaults on the manure heap." Ethel and Archie invented a game of tag involving pokes and crossed fingers during the pastor's long prayer on Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife...
Died. The Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, 69, longtime (1921-40) pastor of Hollywood's huge (membership: 6,400) First Presbyterian Church; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Dr. MacLennan hit the headlines briefly in 1948 when he was formally rebuked by the Los Angeles Presbytery for performing the marriage ceremony for thrice-divorced Lana Turner and thrice-divorced Bob Topping, said in his own defense that he was impressed by Lana's "sincerity and depth of feeling...