Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newark the grand jury indicted Rev. Elmo L. Bateman, pastor of the First Christian church of Maplewood. The indictment specifies that he libeled the Knights of Columbus and Edward J. O'Brien, master of the Fourth Degree of the First Division, New Jersey Knights of Columbus. It is charged that Mr. Bateman printed pamphlets containing the oath, on a press in the basement of his home...
According to the bogus oath, candidates were said to vow merciless war against heretics, Protestants, Masons. On the Sunday following his indictment Bateman. at the request of the board of trustees, tendered his resignation as pastor...
...Evidently the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Mc-Leod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, in New York, had not seen the circular. In his Thanksgiving sermon he criticized Hoover for going south on a dreadnought. Said he: "A Quaker on a battleship looks like a cannon in a parlor...
...right of the presbytery so to reject a pastor was denied by decisions in the courts. The matter was taken to the House of Lords, the Queen, the House of Commons. All sustained the court decisions...
...dripping; a witch whose herbs were powerless against humans, and a mischievous faun whose first prank was to push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed him and took him with her into...