Word: pastoralized
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...longue. but the year is 1864, the drawing room is stuffy, cluttered, sealed against a breath of air. In this world, she finds, her name is Milly Baines, she is a total invalid, and she has a priggish, self-righteous sister who hates her. When she tells a visiting pastor that she is a woman of the future who doesn't belong in 1864, he denounces her claims as devilish fantasies...
Early in the trial the defendants got a major shock when the U.S. called the Rev. Obadiah Jones as a prosecution witness. The Rev. Mr. Jones, Negro pastor of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, was local chairman of the Communist Civil Rights Congress, and such a notorious Communist that the Baptist Ministerial Alliance had expelled him in 1953. Quietly, he testified that he had joined the party in 1946 because the FBI had asked...
...Father Johannes Schwertfirm, Roman Catholic pastor in the Bavarian town of Ober-Teisendorf was in trouble with the law. Again and again, he had vainly asked the authorities for permission to enlarge his church, built in 1429 and far too small for his present congregation. Turned down because of the church's historical value, Father Schwertfirm, 63, carefully removed the church's holy objects, then set off the explosives he had planted and blew up the building. His sentence: two months in jail...
...George Arthur Buttrick, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, hung some crape for the students of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.: "We have explored the planet to learn its secrets, and . . . our ills have multiplied so greatly that our mental hospitals cannot contain them," he gloomed. "It is poetic justice that a generation which has been seeking its own life now has to talk about itself in a psychiatrist's office...
...John Miller Dickey of Oxford, Pa. one day in 1852 had an unusual request to make. He wanted a college education so that he could go into the ministry, but though Oxford is above the Mason-Dixon Line, there was no college in the vicinity that would take him. Pastor Dickey decided that something should be done: two years later he managed to persuade the state to charter the first Negro institution of higher learning...