Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this city in Church circles we have the Rev. Irving Berg, Pastor of the Fort Washington (Congregational) ; the Rev J. Frederic Berg, Pastor of the Flatbush Dutch Reform Church; and for almost half a century, Albert Wilhelm Berg (now deceased) was the organist of the famous Little Church Around the Corner (Episcopal...
...Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, attracted nationwide attention recently with his advocacy of voluntary confession for Protestants...
...feminist problem was dropped when Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto, Canada, President of the Bible Union, launched into an attack on John D. Rockefeller Jr. He charged Mr. Rockefeller and his pastor, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, with trying to transform the Northern Baptist Convention into "the Religious Department of the Standard Oil Co." All of which was promptly denied by Mr. Rockefeller through...
...strenuous visitation of the same spirit causes Elmer's ejection, three years later, from Mizpah Theological Seminary. But he has known the intoxication, stronger than drink, of speaking from a pulpit; has learned, among other rewards of the profession, the ease with which a pastor, who is a baritone solo incarnate, can seduce the parish kittens. A few years of selling farm implements and indulging in small town waitresses are an ideal prolongation of Elmer Gantry's novitiate for his first great phase, evangelism...
...Fosdick heard from another of his chronically vehement critics last week-Dr. Clarence E. N. Macartney of Philadelphia, one-time (1924-25) moderator of the Presbyterian Church, all time a Fundamentalist, although a less strident one than Dr. Straton. Dr. Macartney announced that he was resigning his pastorate of Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, to become pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. Concerning Protestant confessional he said: "Dr. Fosdick, as usual, is about five centuries behind the times...