Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey dawn was breaking over Texas last week when a strapping, six-foot figure in cowhand clothes strode out. on the 80,000-acre Storey Ranch near Cotulla. The hard-preaching, hard-riding pastor of South San Antonio's First Baptist Church, Reverend Robert Gaddy Baucom, faced an impressive, tensely quiet assemblage. Lined up in front, 257 eager hounds strained at their leashes. At one side a Master of Hounds and twelve field judges sat their horses. Behind the dogs ranged 150 other mounted Texans, more than 1,000 in automobiles and trucks of every size and shape...
...into diplomatic relations with the Bolsheviks. The bridegroom, Embassy Disbursing Officer George Minor, had gone to Finland to fetch the bride, Miss Mildred Wright of Charleston, W. Va. who thought it would be romantic to be married in Moscow. There is in Moscow no church with a U. S. pastor, but Bridegroom Minor had retained the services of Moscow's one Protestant clergyman, Reverend A. Streck. Herr Streck's parents were German, but he is a Soviet citizen, and has functioned in his little Lutheran church in Moscow quietly. Because most Protestant diplomats attend his services, Herr Streck...
...sources told correspondents that Herr Streck was in jail, but why they would not tell, and his jailing was not officially confirmed. In vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave the bride away. Intention to found a U. S. church in the Red Capital was definitely abandoned last year after Dr. Walter William Van Kirk...
...forget that your parishioners attend the movies and are accustomed to action. The pastor should listen in on the radio and should read the morning paper every day. The hearer should realize that the man in the pulpit is as much up-to-date or more up-to-date than...
Pledge In Litchfield, III., Pastor L. A. Crown preached on "Litchfield's Worst Sin-Ingratitude," pledged husbands of the Union Avenue Christian Church to kiss their wives twice daily for six weeks...