Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidnapped Mr. and Mrs. Stam and Daughter Helen Priscilla. One morning last week the Communists paraded the two missionaries through the muddy streets of a nearby village, then slashed off their heads with a great curved sword, supposedly in a shrewd effort to embarrass Generalissimo Chiang. A Chinese Christian pastor found the Stams' baby girl alive in a deserted house, a $10 bill and several clean diapers tucked inside her blanket. Chinese mothers volunteered milk until the infant could be taken to the Wuhu hospital where she was born three months...
Last week in Oklahoma City Rev. Homer Lewis Sheffer told his congregation at First Unitarian Church that he was resigning, to accept a call from the First Unitarian Society of Spokane. Wash. "I assure you," said Pastor Sheffer crisply from his pulpit, "that there have been no pious conversations with the Almighty. Other opportunities have come to me but I have turned them down. This time I cannot...
...seven years freckle-faced, red-headed Pastor Sheffer, 44, had been in Oklahoma City. Although Unitarianism is far from strong in the Midwest he doubled attendance in his big, rambling church. Once a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church from which he was ousted for heresy. Pastor Sheffer publicly flayed the churches for their machine-like governments, their excessive "talk about God." He encouraged dances in his quarters in the church, twice lent his pulpit to his good Presbyterian friend Norman Thomas. But it was not his theological or social liberalism that caused Pastor Sheffer to resign last week. Bluntly...
DONALD M. RUNYON Pastor...
...Manhattan, Rev. Dr. George Unangst Wenner celebrated the 66th anniversary of his ordination as a Lutheran pastor. White-bearded and slightly deaf at 90, Dr. Wenner is the oldest U. S. minister in point of service. In 1867, a Yale graduate and a Union Theological seminarian, he began preaching in a blacksmith shop on 14th Street. Soon he founded Christ Church on 19th Street on the far East Side. His congregation grew to 500, then dwindled with an influx of Jews and Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches...