Word: pastoralism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen at the other lumber camps. After a while he worked around to religion, passed out some leaflets and invited the men to look at the Bibles and paper-covered Gospels he had piled on the table. Most of his congregation were French Canadians who understood little of what Pastor Burger had said, but they were glad to find "La Sainte Bible...
...with the beginning of the log drive last week, began another season in the strange ministry of Bill Burger. Pastor since 1944 of the North Eastern Lumber Camp Parish under the Presbyterian Board of National Missions, Pastor Burger serves an estimated 30,000 lumberjacks and expects it will be another two years before he has visited all 250 camps in his territory. Burger is New England's first full-time lumberjack preacher...
This year, Pastor Norris sent the Southern Baptists his personal check for $250, got his credentials...
...Throw Him Out!" The day before the convention opened, its president, the Rev. Louie D. Newton of Atlanta, Ga., climbed to the rostrum in St. Louis' Second Baptist Church to tell 1,000 of his fellow pastors how nice he had found it in Russia last summer (TIME, Aug. 26). Up popped grey-headed Pastor Norris with a list of 17 embarrassing questions...
...presiding minister, Dr. M. E. Dodd of Shreveport, La., raised a forbidding hand, but Norris had already started in his high, strident voice. Desperately, Dr. Dodd fell back on the pastor's last resort: he raised his voice and sang, "How firm a foundation. . . ." The congregation loyally joined in. But grinning Heckler Norris was right with them on the second verse, bellowing the words louder than...