Word: pastorate
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...Carson Blake. Hefty six-footer Blake, 48, played guard for Princeton in 1926 and 1927, ended on the All-East football list and graduated with honors in philosophy. After a missionary teaching year at Lahore, India, he studied at Edinburgh and went to Princeton Theological Seminary. He was assistant pastor in Manhattan, held parishes in Albany, N.Y., and Pasadena, Calif., and is considered by many to be the outstanding U.S. clergyman under 50, an expert in both theology and diplomacy. President Blake broke into one of the Boston sessions to announce "the illness, the serious illness of His Holiness, Pope...
...Wasteful competition between denominations. Example: Enigma, Ga. has three churches-Baptist, Congregational and Methodist. None has a regular pastor, but they will not combine...
...accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four children, confessed to her husband, Theodore, that she had committed adultery with her pastor, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher...
Flowery Denials. A special investigating committee of the Plymouth Church, chosen by Beecher, pronounced the pastor innocent. But in the end, Husband Tilton's forbearance gave out, and he sued Beecher for alienation of affections...
...Says Pastor Peale: "God and the doctor, that's what I give them. Anxiety is the great American disease. Take businessmen. They are a wonderful group of people, but they are so high-strung and tense. I watched a friend being carried out after a heart attack, and he said, 'Use me as a warning.' People have lost the secret of inner peace...