Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such presbyteries as New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Westchester are considering reducing their quota of delegates by half. This excited valiant Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First), whom his fellows call "The Tall Pine of the Sierras." An expert on church law, Dr. Matthews thundered: "No presbytery has a right to elect less than its full quota. . . . If there is not enough money for expenses, let them walk. If they cannot walk, then something is the matter with their feet as well as their heads. This is the time...
...dissident last week was Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, 55, pastor of Newark's Old First Church. He-a member of Presbyterian boards and committees, a sonorous orator and middle-of-the-road theologian-declined to attend the Assembly or allow himself to be considered a candidate for Moderator, on the grounds that "acrimony" or "controversy" might result. A possible source for acrimony is that Dr. Foulkes is a member of the potent Presbyterian General Council, which has been accused of running things high-handedly...
...Little Chillun! (by Hall Johnson; Robert Rockmore, producer). Jim, son and assistant preacher to Pastor Jones of Hope Baptist Church (colored), is drawn from his good wife Ella by the flashing eyes of Sulamai, a loose-hipped young woman from Toomer's Bottom, across the tracks. With Sulamai he attends a meeting of the New Day Pilgrims, a strange sect who worship the moon out in the cypress swamps with four-part harmony and orgiastic dancing. Sulamai seems to have an irresistible appeal for the minor clergy. Writhing in ecstasy among the half-naked New Day Pilgrims, she also...
...State funeral. It took place before 500,000 Berliners who jammed Unter den Linden and the vast square between onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II's Palace and Berlin's (Protestant) Cathedral. For the occasion Chancellor Hitler put on his brown shirt again, sat in a front pew. Pastor Hossenfelder, in his funeral sermon, called Herr Hitler "the man whom God has given us for a leader" and said that the two dead men, having cheered the Chancellor's appointment, died "on a day overflowing with happiness...
...unfrocked. From his embarrassing plight the pious eye is usually averted, but a congregation in Muncie, Ind. last week found this impossible. As Sunday evening service was about to begin, 50 people sat uneasily in Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Behind the pulpit stood their 55-year-old pastor. Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, tall, spare, grim-faced, with lank grey locks falling over his high forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present for the evening services. But Choirmaster Aurand was there. He arose...