Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What caused Pastor Armistead to set his bells to ringing was a pamphlet entitled "Conclusions and Recommendations," which the Commission had issued in Washington as a prelude to their full Report. Newsgatherers had naturally reported it at once. It gave a distinctly Dry impression (TIME, Jan. 26). But when the newsgatherers received and ploughed through the whole 80,000-word Report, it became apparent that "Conclusions and Recommendations" had very little to do with what President Hoover's Commissioners on Law Enforcement & Law Observance had really decided about Prohibition after 20 months of study and the expenditure...
...them the Roman Catholic women come in equal numbers with the Protestants and the Jews. The Pope seems to lay most stress on the statement that contraception is contrary to nature. Then let us respectfully suggest that he be consistent and lay aside his spectacles and stop shaving." Pastor John Haynes Holmes of Manhattan's Community Church: "Here is a tenth-century mind at work on twentieth-century problems. We are never going to get anywhere with marriage or with anything else by going back to St. Augustine...
Died. Dr. William Coleman Bitting, 73, pastor of Second Baptist Church in St. Louis from 1905 to 1924; in St. Louis, Mo. Known as a liberal, his most famed statement was: "I am bound by no creed. Personally, I am a Metho-formed, Presby-gational, Bapto-palian. I am not trying to get men into Heaven; I am trying to get Heaven into men. Nor am I trying to keep men out of Hell, but keep Hell...
Died. Dr. George Morgan Ward, 71, president emeritus of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (president 1895-1903, 1916-20), onetime (1903-12) president of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., winter pastor at the Royal Poinciana Chapel of Palm Beach; of heart disease; in Palm Beach...
...seven years a professional ball player, 34 years an evangelist, 27 years a Presbyterian minister, was nervous last week as he exhorted impromptu in Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, Tabernacle pastor, explained the nervousness as due to Dr. Sunday's "eating nothing of consequence but toast...