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Galesburg, Ill. is giving a lead in interdenominationalism. The new pastor of its big First Presbyterian Church is lanky, homespun Christie Swain-who until last month was minister of Galesburg's smaller Emmanuel Methodist Church...
...reports were authored by the Rev. W. Vernon Middleton, pastor of Philadelphia's Covenant Methodist Church and secretary of the Philadelphia Missionary and Church Extension Society, and Dr. W. Galloway Tyson, who spoke for the conference's four district superintendents. Keynote-that oldtime revival-service vangelism is not enough-was struck by Minister Middleton. Said...
...College and school officials welcomed a pastor who came such a distance to pay parish calls. Headmasters hauled boys out of class, said the visit would do them more good than a lost half-hour of math. Faculty and students alike agreed that Mr. Price's was the best possible way to keep young people in touch with their parishes, to counteract adolescent apathy toward the Church...
...dapper little Pat Rooney took up at Tony Pastor's where his famous dad had left off, danced and sang his way to vaudeville immortality with Rosie O'Grady and a ballad about one Mr. Reilly so enchantingly delivered that everybody has wanted to live Mr. Reilly's life ever since. Last week, 51 years after his debut, and with his own son, Pat Rooney 3rd, now doing his own song-&-dance, platinum-haired Pat Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose...
Many churchmen in The Netherlands are now behind the barbed wire of concentration camps. One pastor was sent there when, after the Nazis had sworn that only 300 people had been killed by their bombing of Rotterdam, he held a memorial service, said: "We are here to pray for those who have died of violence in this city. But before we pray for all the dead, let us pray first for the dead of our own congregation. In all Rotterdam 300 people have been killed. Let us pray for the 1,300 of this 300 that we of this church...