Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service, as I do at our German Communion, he chases me on the organ, keeping about one note behind me. Should intoning be accompanied? He wants to play fancy chords while I read the Scripture Lessons, and I find it hard to stop him. What shall I do?-Despairing Pastor. Answer: You have a problem. Organists with insufficient training like to do those things. The flip of the finger over several keys, known as glissando, has been popularized by the radio comedians Jake and Lena, and organists devoid of taste are doing it in church. The same thing is true...
...Where did a Puritan pastor dream of dancers and hell fire...
...What would Martin Luther have thought of an organist who chased his pastor and abused his chimes...
After Rev. Lakin's message of the evening, C. Thomas Brookshire, D. D. pastor of the Church, retired to make ready for the baptismal service which he was to conduct. When he stepped into the pool he offered a most impressive dedicatory prayer and one at a time baptised two young ladies, the first retiring before the second came. The third candidate was James E. Dean, an electrical contractor of Easton, and just as Pastor Brookshire reached up his right hand to assist Dean into the pool, he fell back into the water, dead. Dean reached into the water...
...supposed to have drawn lots to pick the Archbishop's killers. In Boston a noisy anti-Tashnag mass meeting was held. In Philadelphia, 500 members of St. Gregory's Apostolic Armenian Church took possession of the building, guarded it in relays night & day, ousted their hot-eyed pastor, Rev. Bassig Sarkisian. They charged that in defiance of the orders of the Catholicos, supreme head of the Armenian Church, he had refused to hold 40 days of mourning for the Archbishop...