Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sealed black coffin across Berlin's swank Kaiserwilhelm Cemetery. The grave had been dug next to the mausoleum of the family of a distant relative, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the ace of aces of Imperial Germany. Though there is generally no parson at such funerals, a Protestant pastor was permitted to officiate. Meanwhile all Berlin gaped at scarlet and black posters stuck up everywhere in which Adolf Hitler pointedly emphasized the obvious fact that he had refused to save from beheading Baroness von Falkenhayn and the other beauteous spy who was beheaded with her, aristocratic Frau Renate von Natzmer...
...Reverend Thomas Leonard Harris, pastor of the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, of Philadelphia, will conduct the morning services at 8.45 o'clock in Appleton Chapel...
...Present were Son Ray and eight grandchildren, Son J. Frank and eleven, Son George and three. Daughter Bessie and ten, childless Daughter Elsie Pearl, all the husbands and wives except childless Daughter Elsie Pearl's husband, 19 of the grandchildren's children. Total: 77. Grandson Ross Minkler, pastor of the Church of God of Los Angeles, has 100 kinsmen in his congregation. There has been but one death in Grandma Ellen's family in 26 years. That was her husband Abner, schoolteacher, farmer and sire...
...white-maned at 69, "Reverent" Powell (as many a parishioner calls him) is accustomed to rule his flock like a benign autocrat. Indeed he and his officers are empowered to declare vacant any of the numerous posts in the church. But last week Pastor Powell was meeting open defiance-from the Friendly Society's president, a tall, blue-black West Indian named Samuel Skerritt. Six months ago, recalling that the Friendly Society books had not been audited for four years, Pastor Powell asked for a look at them. Samuel Skerritt seemed evasive. And when Pastor Powell kept on asking...
Last week Pastor Powell called a church meeting, ordered Brother Skerritt to attend. Declaring that the pastor was trying to usurp the prerogatives of the Friendly Society, Brother Skerritt boldly stayed away. The meeting took place, the church officers declared Brother Skerritt deposed, but still no one could lay hands on those books. Harlem street corners continued buzzing about what each side planned to do next, but all "Reverent"' Powell would say was: "We are only having a family fight, which happens in all families, and we are trying to settle the fight without telling the world about...