Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Arthur Buttrick, now pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan,† was at Buffalo when he told a group of Presbyterian ministers how he evaded the enticements of his morning paper. He always read it standing up and so remained always aware that he must spend no time on drivel no matter how entertainingly written. That was shrewd self-management, remarked the Presbyterians, and his formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against...
...another article Editor Leach advised ministers on what they should demand of congregations. The pastor "has the right to presuppose that his people; come to church prepared to worship...
Last week at Douglaston, Long Island, onetime farming community, now haven of commuters, a teapot which had simmered for many a long month finally boiled over. The simmering started in February when the vestry of Zion Episcopal Church asked the pastor, Rev. M. W. Black, to resign. In asking for the resignation the vestry offered Rev. Black 18 months pay if he would leave quietly, permanently, and at once. Rev. Black, married, father of three, quietly refused to leave, continued to occupy Zion's pulpit. In August the vestry, vexed, refused to pay Rev. Black further salary. Still...
...church is standing still. In a growing community like Douglaston we need a live wire. We tried to play ball on this proposition. We offered to take care of him for 18 months. But he became stubborn, showing his inability to realize what is best for the church." The pastor then told why he clung to the little white church where he had preached for the past ten years. "I am unwilling to accept dismissal at the hands of the vestry," he said. "I believe that the majority of the people are with me, and I have been given...
Treating the question of Companionate Marriage from a philosophical and practical point of view, Bertrand Russell, noted English Philosopher and author, will engage in a debate with the Reverend D. A. MacLennan, pastor of the Hyde Park Presbyterian, Church tonight in the Boston Opera House at 8.15 o'clock...