Word: pastorate
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...half-mile with the First Lady to attend Thanksgiving service at the National Presbyterian Church. They sat in a fifth-row pew on the left center side, joined in singing Faith of Our Fathers, 0 God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand and Our Father's God, heard the pastor, the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, offer a special prayer for the President of the U.S.: "Surround him with healing ministries that in the completeness of health and strength he may fulfill his high calling in the service of mankind through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen." And when the President, bundled...
...Pastor Siegfried Schmutzler, 42, is a blond, ramrod-straight veteran who does not mind a fight. Last week he won a notable struggle with the Communist government of East Germany...
...special concern; he volunteered to serve as minister to the Evangelical Studentengemeinde. This organization was no more political than a campus branch of the Y.M.C.A., but after the Hungarian massacre last year, the Reds grew jumpy about any non-Communist student organization-especially one with so opiniated a pastor...
...Schmutzler did not hesitate to speak out loud and clear against the rites of Youth Dedication to the State with which Communism is trying to drive out the Christian custom of confirmation in the church. For preaching against any work on Sunday that conflicted with the hours of worship Pastor Schmutzler was jailed on charges of "sabotaging the five-year plan...
...eight months before Pastor Schmutzler was brought to trial, while the Reds evidently tried to break his spirit. Last week 150 hand-picked "workers" and "observers" were assembled in the Leipzig district court for a show trial. Western newsmen were barred, and even the Communist papers significantly omitted their usual lush descriptions of the defendant's cringing and pleading for clemency. Siegfried Schmutzler's sentence: five years at hard labor. Top churchmen throughout East and West Germany protested, but they knew that in a real sense the sentence represented a victory for unbreakable Pastor Schmutzler. Said Hamburg University...