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...black oxen and his wife (Ruth Pease, descendant) and his five children. Pioneer Pease gazed with feigned amazement at the modern college campus, where a replica of the original cabin had been built. Bands played. School children marched. Memorial trees were planted, in honor of the founders and of Pastor Oberlin. Virginia Richardson, 16, recited a history of Oberlin. So feelingly had she written this, winning a high school contest, that in addition she was given $10 by English Professor P. D. Sherman...
...Alsatian pastor-teacher (1740-1826), who founded France's first day nurseries...
...mass meeting of "German Christians" was called in the old Prussian Diet House to hear the outline of the new Nazi religion. A Pastor Hossenfelder led off with an announcement...
Such presbyteries as New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Westchester are considering reducing their quota of delegates by half. This excited valiant Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First), whom his fellows call "The Tall Pine of the Sierras." An expert on church law, Dr. Matthews thundered: "No presbytery has a right to elect less than its full quota. . . . If there is not enough money for expenses, let them walk. If they cannot walk, then something is the matter with their feet as well as their heads. This is the time...
...dissident last week was Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, 55, pastor of Newark's Old First Church. He-a member of Presbyterian boards and committees, a sonorous orator and middle-of-the-road theologian-declined to attend the Assembly or allow himself to be considered a candidate for Moderator, on the grounds that "acrimony" or "controversy" might result. A possible source for acrimony is that Dr. Foulkes is a member of the potent Presbyterian General Council, which has been accused of running things high-handedly...