Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterians soon discovered that church founding has its obstacles. First big one was the ample frame of Moderator George Emerson Barnes of the Philadelphia Presbytery. A onetime University of Montana footballer who subscribes to the 1923 Auburn Affirmation which questions such doctrines as the Virgin Birth, Dr. Barnes is pastor of swank Overbrook Presbyterian Church, a Rotarian and Union Leaguer well versed in church law. When Dr. Machen and his followers began handing resignations to their presbyteries last week, Moderator Barnes promptly called a meeting at which he declared that it was impossible for a Presbyterian minister to resign from...
FREDERICK ROBERTSON GRIFFIN: DOCTOR OF DIVINITY, of Philadelphia, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia since 1927. "A pastor and preacher of distinction, a worthy representative of the long line of spiritual leaders who have been the fruit of the Puritans' concern for a learned ministry...
...messenger" (delegate) : "We don't want any of that Communistic business in this convention." Fellowship Meetings. An odd liaison between the Northern and Southern conventions appeared in St. Louis in the loud-voiced, bumptious person of Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, famed Texas evangelist who is nominal pastor of 12,000 Baptists in Fort Worth, actual shepherd of a flock of 5,000 in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 14, 1935). Baptist Norris got his Fort Worth church to pay the necessary $250 fee, armed himself with a badge reading "Messenger" and for the first time in years...
...Wilbur Emery Hammaker, 60, pastor for 21 years of Trinity M. E. Church in Youngstown, Ohio, and Dr. Charles Wesley Flint, 57, Chancellor of Syracuse University, were both rightly regarded by the conference as conservative Methodists. Students at Syracuse, of which Dr. Flint has been head since 1922, professed to believe he had wished to retire because antics of some of its young men, it is still typical of how a good-sized ministerial training school operates. The fact that Union matriculates Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, exposes them to the religious views of Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ and then returns...
...Charles Jaynes, pastor in Detroit of a foursquare Gospel Church affiliated with Aimee Semple McPherson's organization has a chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being...