Word: pastorals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With ardent young Welsh folk singing native songs outside the courtroom at Carnarvon last week, three Welsh Nationalists stood in the dock charged with malicious destruction of King Edward's property. Did or did not a Welsh pastor, a Welsh author and a Welsh schoolmaster burn buildings of the British Royal Air Force bombing school near Pwllheli (pronounced "pool-thélly"), Wales, thereby causing $10,000 damage...
...Pastor Lewis Valentine, heedless of the judge's frequent warnings that he must not make irrelevant remarks, vehemently justified the burning, thundered with apostolic zeal: "The English Government's behavior in the matter of the bombing school is exactly the behavior of the new Antichrist throughout Europe. . . . The establishment of the bombing field would make imminent the death of our Welsh nation. . . . It is my responsibility for the Kingdom of God in Wales that urged me to strike the blow for Wales. Our allegiance to the laws of Christianity is infinitely higher than our allegiance to the laws...
After this passionate outburst the jury found themselves unable to agree, and as the three incendiaries walked out of the courtroom to await the next assizes they were shouldered on high by festive Welsh crowds who cheered wildly whenever Pastor Valentine mentioned "governmental iniquity...
...William Wash Williams was dazzled by him from the first. The Quiet Lodger of Irving Place consequently tells little that is new about the lodger, but is a nostalgic guide book to Irving Place in the days when it was bounded by Tom Sharkey's Saloon, 'Bony Pastor's vaudeville house, and the famed Scheffel Hall that O. Henry described in "Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss...
...Holy Rollers gathered two Sundays ago in Virginia near Mulberry Gap on the Tennessee border. Their pastor, 60-year-old Rev. Hugh C. Anderson who had once been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home...