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Furthermore to help Captain Bertinatti, Waldensian pastor attached to the Italian Army in Ethiopia as chaplain, Mussolini invited hard-working Ernesto Comba, head of the Church and professor of systematic theology in the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, to send along another chaplain, a request with which the Moderator gladly complied since, said he, "there are thousands of evangelical Abyssinians...
...having possessed apparatus for making the "queer," having given a homemade $20 bill to a parishioner of 15 years' standing. Father Balaban's bond was set at $40,000. He went to jail, since his congregation not only declined to raise the bond but ousted him as pastor. The U. S. head of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Bishop Zivoin Ristanovich, suspended Father Balaban, advised his onetime flock to "keep faith, remain quiet, and pray for a just ending of this shocking occurrence...
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...Longtime pastor of St. Stephen's Church, whose congregation of 25,000 was Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth...
Edward McGlynn died in 1900, in Newburgh, N. Y. where he had served as pastor for five years. To his funeral went Archbishop Corrigan, Newburgh's Jewish rabbi and all its Protestant ministers...