Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church Manhattan: "The action of the Pope is as impudent as it is illegal. ... It implies that the Duke and the Duchess lived together 25 years without being married...
Died. Paul Revere Frothingham, 62, for the past 26 years pastor of Arlington Street Church, Boston (chief church of the New England Unitarian "Brahmins"); in Boston; of apoplexy...
...John Masefield from the Norwegian of Wiers-Jenssen, is not so happily inspired. It seems amorphous in character. Starting with the revelation that witchcraft was a medie val actuality, it proceeds to trace the growth of witch-power in young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the old village pastor, guilty sweet heart of his son. To satisfy her love, she casts the spell of death upon her old husband. Accused by her mother-in-law, she shrinks from the trial by touch and oath, confesses with a wail of misery and despair her witchcraft, goes to feed another Lutheran bonfire...
Tomorrow morning at 8.45 o'clock, the regular Appleton Chapel service will be held in memory of the Alley Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham '80, late pastor of the Arlington Street Church, who died suddenly last Saturday. Professor E. C. Moore, chairman of the University Board of Preachers, will conduct the services, assisted by the Rev. H. E. B. Speight, rector of King's Chapel, and will pay a special tribute to Dr. Frothingham...
...Quitting-to preach." Thus Dr. James L. Gordon, eminent San Francisco Congregational pastor, clears, in the December Sunset Magazine, the mystery of his recent resignation from church ties. Dr. Gordon plans to establish a free lance pulpit in "some metropolitan city" where he can reach 3,000 at a time. He loves to preach. He will have no business notices at his meetings, "no joinings, no subscribing, no creeds." Said he: "The stage cannot supplant the pulpit and the newspaper cannot permanently overshadow it. The authority of the human voice, in its appeal to conscience, cannot be eliminated and must...