Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin's Church of St. Paul the Apostle the No. 1 Emergency Pastor, Rev. Martin Niemoeller, urged 1,000 blue-clad boys of the Pastor's newly-formed German Bible Circle to "Resist! Resist! Resist!" Bravely chanting the Protestant youth hymn ending "Ever Faithful to God!" the adolescents marched out of the church, attempted to parade. Menaced by brawny Prussian police, they rolled up their banners, put away their band instruments, scurried home. Priests had been sent to prison camps, despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic. Not to be downed, the Catholic Bishop...
...Jonesboro, Ark. (pop.: 10,326), home of Senator Hattie Caraway, two years ago it took National Guardsmen, armed with machine guns and tear bombs, to avert a pitched battle between two factions of Baptists (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). Later two resolute evangelists each sought to become fulltime pastor of Jonesboro's Baptist Tabernacle. Last September Rev. Joe Jeffers and Rev. Dale S. Crowley were arrested for fistfighting. When Evangelist Jeffers installed a follower of his as Tabernacle janitor, Evangelist Crowley countered by obtaining a court order conceding the Tabernacle's pastorate to himself. Flourishing the order he entered...
...John Daniel Henderson, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg, S. C. left on a year's leave of absence several months ago. In London last month he met an attractive man in the Regent's Park zoo. A clean-cut, serious young fellow he was, named O'Rourke...
Spartanburghers are resourceful. The Rev. Mr. Henderson pulled his hat down over his eyes, changed his overcoat, shaved off his mustache. Being thus, as he said, "disguised," Pastor Henderson took to haunting Regent's Park zoo. Last week he again met a charming young man who had just been left ?400,000. His accomplice was nearby. They went to a teashop to talk things over. In the midst of tea O'Rourke (real name, Robert George) lost his appetite and began to run. Sprinting hard, the Rev. Mr. Henderson caught him three blocks away. Both crooks were jailed...
...Manhattan's St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Pastor William Norman Guthrie was celebrating the "Christian Office of the Children of the Zodiac," a memorial service for the late Astrologist Evangeline Adams. As the congregation sang a hymn, Dr. Guthrie lit a Eucharistic candle. His surplice sleeve brushed against a row of lighted candles, flared up. The congregation stopped singing, resumed again as Dr. Guthrie, with little help, slapped out the blaze with his hand...