Word: pastores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said President Henry Sloane Coffin, regarding the election of the first Negro ever named to the board of a major U.S. educational institution. He is Dr. William Lloyd Imes, scholarly pastor of St. James' Church in Harlem, the third largest Presbyterian church in New York City. Union has always admitted Negro students; of its present enrollment of 311, eleven (3.5%) are Negroes...
...Lutheran pastor, in sober black clerical gown, stood up in his pulpit at Woodstock, Va. and preached with godly fervor and patriotic warmth. "There is a time for all things," he ended, "a time to preach and a time to pray. But there is also a time to fight, and that time has now come...
...flung open his gown to reveal beneath it the blue-&-buff uniform of the Continental Army. It was January 1776. A drum beat before the door; a bugle call rang through the church; and before the end of service 300 members of the congregation had enlisted, with their pastor as Colonel. To the close of the Revolution, Pastor John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg kept the field, rising to be a major general...
Periodically there were mild panics in the Cebu Leprosarium, and once several hundred of the patients escaped and fled to the hills. They knew that the Japs shoot lepers without mercy. Tall, typically Irish Father Francis O'Donnell, their pastor, followed them, assured them that the Lord protects the afflicted, got them to go back to the Leprosarium, where three nuns tend them...
...Palm Sunday Cleveland's Pastor Frank H. Ferris and his well-to-do Fairmount Presbyterian congregation celebrated their first services in a brand-new church. Most magnificent of all the new church's handsome trappings was a set of 37 stained-glass windows picturing the life of Christ. Few U.S. churches could boast their equals, and none precisely like them had ever been seen in a U.S. church before. For the world's makers of stained-glass windows they reopened an artistic question that most purists had settled a generation...