Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command to Kuo Lao-man was his last message. Next day Chinese Boxers, uprising, slew him foully...
...TIME'S genealogical researcher a reprimand. James Drummond Dole is a son of the Rev. Charles Fletcher Dole, for 40 years pastor of the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church at Jamaica Plain, Boston. Rev. Dole has been pastor emeritus since...
Cure. With a direct honesty like that of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in its reports, Dr. Carroll's Interchurch Conference' study of these church losses recommends a cure: "The discovery that members are straying away from the flock while church and pastor are busy with matters of far less moment and that wanderers are increasing at an alarming rate, must seem a grievous thing demanding immediate attention from those still in the fold. . . . Take away the materialistic character of the shekels needed for the sanctuary. Do not use such terms as 'assessments,' taxes...
...Neptune, N. J., the Rev. Irving Meier, pastor of the Full Gospel Church, was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct because he persisted in conducting "screeching, howling and hilarity" in his tent-tabernacle after 10 p. m. Upon his promising to cease his pentecostal endeavors at a seemly hour he was discharged...
...Their membership they claim is in the millions; they have tens of thousands of local associations, called "ecclesias" and ruled by "elders" and "deacons"; publications are in 37 languages. They have no paid ministers. Workers receive bare expenses. Excess money gathered from believers go to further their spread of "Pastor" Russell's, now Judge Rutherford's, ideas.* Those ideas are that the Bible, the Prophets and Revelations especially, forecast and prefix all earthly doings. By judicious use of Biblical excerpts Bible Students have "established" that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," have governed human affairs. Cosmos...