Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pastor of Church of Christ...
...similar innovation had been made the week before by the Rev. Dr. Peter Ainslie, pastor of the Christian Temple in Baltimore. The essential purpose which prompted Dr. Tucker and Dr. Ainslie to such action was well expressed by the former: "The first step in a unity of Christian peoples is for the Protestant sects to get together. There can be no real discussion of a union as long as Rome is forced to deal with numerous sects, all holding divergent beliefs...
...small communities, a competition which leads to poor sermons, impoverished churches, shabby rivalries between small congregations. They agreed that communities of 1,000 persons, if provided with more than one Protestant edifice, were "overchurched." Per contra, every 1,000 persons should support one Protestant edi- fice, one resident pastor, one Sunday School, a regular weekly service...
...virtually consummated. Others are possible (TIME, Dec. 5). Mr. Eaton is worth $50,000,000 himself.± He is a partner in Otis & Co., Cleveland, investment bankers.± Only a few years ago, a newcomer to Cleveland, he was preaching in a small Baptist church whenever the regular pastor was absent. His voice remains mellow & resonant. Unostentatiously he gives much money to church needs, hunts with hounds, rears seven children. Although democratic, Otis & Co. employes hold him in greater awe than they do Charles A. ("Charlie") Otis, head of the firm...
...unfortunate that the Major's conduct is not typical of the attitude of the church at large to such onslaughts. Usually when a pastor sees a menacing umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...