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...John Daniel Henderson, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg, S. C. left on a year's leave of absence several months ago. In London last month he met an attractive man in the Regent's Park zoo. A clean-cut, serious young fellow he was, named O'Rourke...
Spartanburghers are resourceful. The Rev. Mr. Henderson pulled his hat down over his eyes, changed his overcoat, shaved off his mustache. Being thus, as he said, "disguised," Pastor Henderson took to haunting Regent's Park zoo. Last week he again met a charming young man who had just been left ?400,000. His accomplice was nearby. They went to a teashop to talk things over. In the midst of tea O'Rourke (real name, Robert George) lost his appetite and began to run. Sprinting hard, the Rev. Mr. Henderson caught him three blocks away. Both crooks were jailed...
...Manhattan's St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Pastor William Norman Guthrie was celebrating the "Christian Office of the Children of the Zodiac," a memorial service for the late Astrologist Evangeline Adams. As the congregation sang a hymn, Dr. Guthrie lit a Eucharistic candle. His surplice sleeve brushed against a row of lighted candles, flared up. The congregation stopped singing, resumed again as Dr. Guthrie, with little help, slapped out the blaze with his hand...
...Manhattan, the North Presbyterian Church installed as its pastor Rev. Dr. Merle Hampton Anderson, since 1924 pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich. North Church had resolved to call no minister over 50. It gladly changed its mind last summer when Dr. Anderson, 60, preached three stirring guest sermons...
...Presbyterian ministers belong. Unabashed by the trouncing administered them at the last Presbyterian General Assembly (TIME, June 5), the Fundamentalists proclaimed they are holding their line, unanimously nominated as their candidate for moderator at next Assembly Rev. Dr. Harold S. Laird, 42, pastor of First & Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington...