Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third: There were not six speeches, but only two; the principal one by Dr. David G. Wylie, President of the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States, who was followed by Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. The General Secretary, Dr. Bowlby, in a few remarks presented to the President printed documents containing the address of former President Coolidge, and other Presidents, on the value of the Christian Sabbath and Sunday. The President thanked the delegation for calling and made a courteous response, but it is the rule of the White...
...Portland is Dr. Wilson's wife's home. He wa: pastor of Portland's Grace Church (1905-10) president of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League...
...most disturbing was the point-blank question put to the Bishops by the Rev. Edward Lyttelton, onetime headmaster of Eton, who demanded to know immediately what they thought about birth control- Said Dr. Lyttelton: "If contraception is not wrong in many cases it must be right. Will any pastor say this from his pulpit? Will any bishop put his name to a document commending the practice even to the dwellers of the city slums? Why not? Or will any ordained person avow in public he is himself a contraceptionist? If not, why not? The Roman Catholic church is very explicit...
...little, Dr. Poling writes novels which he signs "Dan Poling." One of these (The Heretic) he wrote on a Westbound transcontinental train. He has laid his novels on New York harbor barges, in Pittsburgh steel mills. He knows about New York because in the winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers' workday cut from twelve hours to eight. During...
...will not give any money to any church the pastor of which indulges in tobacco. Yet no fanatic is Mr. Kresge. Offered a drink, offered a cigar, he refuses, but politely...