Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian he could marry her attractive, Wellesley-graduated Meiling. The Conqueror replied that he would not adopt a new religion merely to win a bride, but that if Miss Soong would marry him he would agree to study Christianity, and then do as he saw fit. No ordained Christian pastor could be found who thought General Chiang free to marry Miss Soong, so a lay Y.M.C.A. secretary united them in holy matrimony. From the day General Chiang thus took his No. 2 wife, both his character and his fortunes rapidly commenced to take on a certain grandeur. Eventually he also...
Furthermore to help Captain Bertinatti, Waldensian pastor attached to the Italian Army in Ethiopia as chaplain, Mussolini invited hard-working Ernesto Comba, head of the Church and professor of systematic theology in the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, to send along another chaplain, a request with which the Moderator gladly complied since, said he, "there are thousands of evangelical Abyssinians...
...Heavyweight Nathan Mann, 22, of New Haven, Conn.; a ten-round boxing match with New York's Bob Pastor; in which Pugilist Mann overcame Pugilist Pastor's famed running-and-holding propensities, decisively squelched his claim to being No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight championship; in Manhattan...
...having possessed apparatus for making the "queer," having given a homemade $20 bill to a parishioner of 15 years' standing. Father Balaban's bond was set at $40,000. He went to jail, since his congregation not only declined to raise the bond but ousted him as pastor. The U. S. head of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Bishop Zivoin Ristanovich, suspended Father Balaban, advised his onetime flock to "keep faith, remain quiet, and pray for a just ending of this shocking occurrence...
Edward McGlynn died in 1900, in Newburgh, N. Y. where he had served as pastor for five years. To his funeral went Archbishop Corrigan, Newburgh's Jewish rabbi and all its Protestant ministers...