Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excess of zeal they lured Roman Catholic children. Angered, the Club of Our Lady of the Assumption sent a delegation to the New Bedford Chief of Police, who immediately reprimanded Rev. R. J. Kirkland, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Kirkland agreed to stop the lollypop luring, had never approved of it anyway. But Pastor Kirkland felt satisfied. In the twelfth week of the contest, attendance at his Sunday School totaled 1,373, to Maiden...
...days prior they had assembled at Pittsburgh, in the streets' outside old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, whose publicity-wise pastor, Rev. James R. Cox, had collected small sums for his tram's food and gasoline. Accompanied by his mother, Father Cox stepped out on the portico of his church, consulted his lieutenants. Two were priests like himself, another a lawyer. Waiting to join him en route was prizefighting, pants-pressing Mayor Edward McCloskey of Johnstown (1889 flood town). Then Father Cox signalled for his motorcade of 1,000 trucks and cars to get underway, climbed into the lead...
...minister to it. What shall they say ? Most, today, talk of Depression. Some endeavor to be cheery, smart, topical. Others are modern, "humanistic." Of the group who preach the real oldtime religion, none is more zealous than a towering, white-haired patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews. Pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First, with a congregation of 7,886), he spoke forthrightly to his brothers last week. In The Presbyterian he wrote...
...Principal and Mistress, Comrades Mike & Fanny will teach U. S. tots that the U. S. and other "imperialist" powers are plotting and preparing war on Russia. Challenged recently by a visiting U. S. pastor who called Heaven to witness that the U. S. is profoundly peaceful, Borodin replied: "The people of America are very easily led. They had no notion of going into the World War, but imperceptibly their leaders carried them on until one morning they woke...
...blue" who leads a right faction of 41 Reichstag Deputies. Herr Hitler leads 107. Also represented at Bad Harzburg, where Hitler drums rumbled and Hitler songs rang through the leafy forest, was the Peasant's League of 19 Deputies. After Divine guidance had been invoked by a Lutheran pastor and a Catholic priest, the assembled factions pledged to stand together in the Reichstag as "The National Opposition...