Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wales and of an old American family. All of my relatives, including my mother and father, still live in New York and all of them are of the Christian religion. As a very young child I was raised in the Methodist church under Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, who was pastor of the church on Seventh Avenue near 14th Street. I was a member of his choir for many years, as was my brother. There is no jew in my past life that warrants the assumption that I am Jewish, and I do not consider that it was necessary to make...
...late Dr. John Roach Straton, scorching, oratorical Pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, who looked often on Manhattan's pleasure domes and called them bad, was survived when he died last year by four sons-Hillyer Hawthorne, preacher; John (Charles, lawyer; Warren Badenock, sculptor; George Douglas, schoolboy...
Straton admirers interestedly follow the career of son Hillyer Hawthorne, 25, holiest issue of a holy man. He was acting pastor at his father's church until that pulpit was officially filled a few weeks ago by the Rev. Will H. Houghton from Atlanta. Then he considered two calls, one to the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Paterson, N. J., another to the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind. Last week he chose Muncie, where he will, due to the church's size, automatically acquire prominence among Indiana Baptists. Pastor emeritus of the Muncie First Baptist is soldierly...
Stephen Crane, 14th child of a Methodist pastor, was born in Newark. N. J.. in 1871, became a newspaperman at an early age. His first novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, was printed at his own expense, under a pseudonym; it fell flat. His second, The Red Badge of Courage, brought him jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late...
...Pastor Albert Dale Gantz of Williams-bridge Church: "That was a matter of too many women...