Word: pastoralized
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...Christian times, and each generation was a little harder than the one before. Because his father took a scunner against him, Hannes was condemned to be educated. While his brothers and sisters were brought up to be farmers he learned the three R's with the local pastor. Christiane, the Count's daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away and Hannes left home too, to learn engineering. After the War he went back to farming again, and one day he inherited his father...
...college president. A son of the rich, coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin, Pa. His stock joke: "I became a bachelor and a benedict on the same...
...last 20 years this Dominican was believed to have performed 58,000 miracles, or eight a day. He was canonized in 1455. The Dominicans who conduct the Manhattan church were piously pleased to receive their patron's relic. The Very Rev. William A. Marchant, prior and pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer's, estimated the reliquary to be at least 450 years old. But who the "personal friend'' was that brought him this invaluable antique, Father Marchant would not tell...
Cried Rev. Doss Kilgore, assistant pastor of a nearby Full Salvationist Mission, to a writhing, wailing group: "We want to snuggle up to the Lord tonight and look right into Heaven. He needs a band of people to do his will." When Shirley's rigid arms slowly rose up, the shirt-sleeved evangelist exclaimed: "It is a manifestation of God's power...
Born in Elkhart, Ind. 66 years ago, Herbert Bigelow went to Cincinnati in 1896 as pastor of the Vine Street Church...