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...busy clergyman and . . . I usually read it from cover to cover because it contains so much in every department that is of value to a pastor...
...Pastor Herbert Reich had never seen the two 15-year-old girls before, but when they clambered down from the crowded third-class coach at the Delmenhorst station one day last week, he recognized them at once. Their clothes were clean but more patched and ragged than is usual in Western Germany, they carried tiny battered satchels instead of suitcases, and their eyes were bright with anticipation. Thirty-five-year-old Pastor Reich, who lost one leg to a Russian mortar shell, hobbled forward on his cane to introduce himself. "Guten Tag," said Else Hartmann and Irma Mueller shyly...
...children look upon Adelheide as the next thing to heaven. With almost no urging, they have organized an orchestra, a fortnightly Mimeographed paper, a system of student government. But sometimes there are problems. The Catholic director, cheery, pink-faced Alfons Loebbert, a layman, has more of these than Protestant Pastor Reich, since some 400 of the Catholic children are neither orphans nor wanderers: they are children of Berliners, flown out of the city by the R.A.F. at the beginning of winter, to ease the burden of the blockade...
...Cleveland generated some heat. The 1,500 delegates and spectators jammed the Public Auditorium's ballroom so tightly that suits wilted and hairdos straggled. It was made hotter still by the vociferous opposition to the merger, led by big (6 ft. 4 in.) Dr. James Fifield Jr., 49, pastor of the denomination's largest and most prosperous flock-Los Angeles' 4,526-member First Congregational Church...
...prayer. But in 1939 the Senators decided that they should make a plea for divine guidance every time they met. Dr. Harris does not let his duties on Capitol Hill interfere with his regular work at Foundry Methodist Church, where next fall he will celebrate his 25th anniversary as pastor...