Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
...received the ugly brick house outright and that is one of the most valuable pieces in the whole estate. The reason for the favoritism toward Drew was found last week in the ancient records of the Wendel family. Its first president, Dr. John McClintock who died in 1870, was pastor at the Wendels' church and in his biography are two letters to Old J. D. Wendel. Each of eleven Wendels (the first in 1896) had $10,000 memorials established for them at Drew. And the only Wendel sister ever to marry (Rebecca Swope) was married by a Drew President. Originally...
WARRANT FOR PASTOR IN FUR THEFTS; LOOT CACHED IN ORGAN AT PARK FALLS...
...headline in the Milwaukee Journal year ago. When Rev. B. F. Schoenfeld, pastor of the Congregational Church at Park Falls, Wis. read that headline, he boiled with rage. It referred to his church. And he was sure that anyone reading the headline would believe that he was accused of larceny. To be sure, the news story made it clear that someone else had stolen the furs from the organ loft, where they had been secreted. And the man arrested for the theft revealed that two of the skins were not yet dry, indicating they had been trapped out of season...
...headline alone cannot be made the cause of a libel action unless it commits a complete libel in itself, and definitely identifies the libelled person. Otherwise, judgment must be based upon the entire article. Said the court: "Even assuming that [the headline] is susceptible of the meaning that some pastor at Park Falls had been named in a larceny warrant, there is nothing in these headlines to identify the plaintiff as being such pastor. It is well settled that defamatory words must refer to some ascertained or ascertainable person and that that person must be the . . . plaintiff...