Word: pastoralism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 15 years ago, when young Pastor Marcus Bach first went to his Evangelical pulpit in the town he calls Fairfield, Kans., most of Fairfield's farmers and cattlemen were members of the Evangelical and Baptist churches. The same kinds of cars nuzzled the two churches on Sunday mornings and the same kinds of Godfearing Kansans sang and prayed inside. Why shouldn't the two become one flock? To Pastor Bach and the young Baptist preacher across the way, the 200-odd-sect division of Protestantism in the U.S. was "inherently wrong and sinful...
Broad-chested Pastor Thurman spoke quietly in his rich baritone. "There is in each of us an innermost center," he began. "When we are concerned with our business and the details of living, this is difficult to discover . . . During these half hours together, let us enter into this experience and quiet...
...third of its $19,000 yearly budget is contributed by the congregation, the rest by friends and 185 "national associates" (who include such kindly lights as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Harper Sibley, president of the United Council of Church Women). In addition to his white Co-Pastor Robert Meyners, Thurman is assisted by a Nisei Methodist who preaches once a month...
...hospital had raised some opposition. Ninety members of Corinth Baptist got out; they objected to the diversion of their $39,000 building fund (the congregation now worships in a private house), objected to the pastor's leasing the old building to Mrs. Starr for 20 years at a sum so low he refuses to name...
...good work done by Aaron and Hur that day should be an inspiration to U.S. laymen. So thought greying, conscientious Principal Harold Dressel of the Northrup Elementary School at River Rouge, Mich. When the new pastor of his church complained of the indifference of laymen in the congregations he had known, Methodist Dressel remembered Moses' helpers...