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...graduated from Yale (B. D. 1923), studied at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Four years ago he suffered a breakdown. Thin, highbrowed, grey-haired, he now looks older than he is. In March 1931 Mr. Beale took over the People's Church in St. Paul, whose pastor for many years had been Howard Y. Williams, now secretary of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action. People's was down-at-heel, in a shabby neighborhood. Preacher Beale stepped up its program, managed this year to increase its budget...
...that bear their names. Few Protestant church folk are celebrated for making or vending spirits. Lately, Lutheran Denmark has been pondering the idea. It began at a ministers' meeting held by Rt. Rev. A. J. Rud, Lutheran Bishop of Fyen (Funen Island). Bishop Rud told his ministers about Pastor Keiding of Valby, suburb of Copenhagen...
...Pastor Keiding had a fine new church. But the people of Valby continued to ignore it, to patronize the Gammel Oestengaard, an alehouse across the way. Pastor Keiding bought the Gammel Oestengaard, improved its atmosphere, preached his gospel therein. Pleased, Pastor Keiding uttered a heady aphorism: "It is better to sit in a saloon and think about the church than to sit in a church and think about the saloon...
...British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied at Rochester Theological Seminary on a scholarship was graduated in 1909 to become pastor of Rochester's Lake Avenue Baptist Church. This congregation he built up to 2,500 during his 20-year stay...
...Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that raised fears for the new administration among both students and graduates. Quite to the contrary of these forebodings, the new president made himself personally likeable in undergraduate circles and was able to develop Princeton from...