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...plan was Pastor Hugh Thomson Kerr's of Pittsburgh's prosperous Shadyside Presbyterian Church. He persuaded his church trustees to give him $4,000 for expenses, and then invited run-of-the-pulpit Presbyterian preachers to a week-long series of sessions at Pittsburgh's Western Theological Seminary...
...report on the ministry had other disturbing statistics. Of the 730 ministers ordained in 1937-39 to serve Congregational churches, 57% had already been ministers in other denominations, and of these 417 only 25 bothered to become Congregationalists (no Congregational pastor has to subscribe to any particular creed before he is ordained...
...walls and dark-painted woodwork, and the sick-sweet smell of wreaths and flowers. There, in a steel casket, the flag draped over, lay the body of Otto J. Weiner Jr., private in the Marines, killed in action on an unnamed Pacific island. American Legionnaires stood guard. A Lutheran pastor spoke the eulogy, said the prayer...
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...Marshall Field doesn't like the race issue, Publisher Powell does (see cut). No Harlem upstart, he is pastor of Harlem's 134-year-old Abyssinian Baptist Church (world's biggest Protestant congregation: 14,000). He is New York City's first and only Negro councilman. He has led picket lines, organized campaigns for jobs for Negro clerks and doctors. He is a close friend of Harlem's No. 1 boogie-woogie manager, Charles Buchanan of the Savoy Ballroom. He employs five secretaries and a liveried chauffeur. And he has his eye on Congress...