Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churchwomen met in the Hartman Theatre, named after the late Dr. Samuel S. Hartman, inventor of "Peruna," sensational oldtime patent medicine (which once contained about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading...
Revered William M. Duvall, a young man, graduate of Boston University Theological School, who has taken courses in the Department of Social Ethics at Harvard under Dr. Richard C. Cabot and others, is pastor of the Trinity Community Methodist Episcopal Church in the slum district of East Cambridge. His church is, in effect, a settlement house to which he brings all races and religious. He wrote a personal letter to President Lowell expressing his astonishment that Harvard, with its traditions, should have treated Mrs. Emma Trafton (who lives in a dark, dreary tenement directly in the rear of Mr. Duvall...
Prime mover and President of the L. W. C. is Dr. John Alfred Morehead, 62, of Manhattan, native Virginian, onetime Lutheran pastor, onetime (1908-19) President of his alma mater, Roanoke College (Va.). He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, is well-traveled. His task of unifying Lutherans, even on paper, is calculated to require five or six years. Dr. Morehead is now the first world executive of any Protestant denomination...
Thus last week spoke popular, robust Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling in his farewell sermon at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. After seven years he had resigned to devote his time to radio preaching, writing and editing-the only pastor of his 302-year-old sect in New York ever to leave his post for a reason other than ill health...
...potent football at Dallas College (Oregon), having run for the Governorship of Ohio (1912) at the age of 28 chiefly to boost Prohibition (he was too young to hold office), having written novels and campaigned for Labor, he entered organized religion with energy unabated and was soon not only pastor of a big metropolitan church but editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald, President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, President of the International Society of Christian Endeavor...