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Courage and pain trained Pastor Grüber for his job. In 1934 the Nazis ousted him from his post as director of a children's home in Templin. Brandenburg. His church sent him to a parish in East Berlin. Victims of the Nazis soon learned that Pastor Grüber would help them, and many of them fled to his church for refuge. He set up an underground organization to hide them in apartments, penthouses and garden sheds, to smuggle them abroad...
After the war, Grüber was appointed pastor of the Marienkirche, the oldest undestroyed church in Berlin's inner city. Several of the men he had known in concentration camps became top officials in the Communist government, and they trusted the earnest, red-faced man whose religious principles had led him to the same ugly places as their political convictions had led them. In 1949 Pastor Grüber was appointed plenipotentiary from the Evangelical Church to the Communist government at Pankow...
DOMENICO SAVIO (1842-57) told his pastor, at the age of five, that he was big enough to serve Mass. When he was twelve, the frail Italian schoolboy became one of the first pupils of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesian Soiety and educational pioneer. Domenico died three years later, after "living a full life in 15 years...
Married. The Rev. Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, 59, pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church, entrepreneur of canned sermons, radio preacher on 60 stations; and Mrs. Margaret N. Bell, 45; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...from the good old days of 1921, when Author Hecht, acting as "fund-raiser" for a Baptist group, "persuaded the Baptist synod ... to offer a prize of $5,000 for the best biography of the Savior," entered the contest under "the name of a needy Baptist pastor"-and walked off with the prize...