Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixty plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him." (TIME...
...will doubtless be interested to know that the pastor's name is May B. Lord, that she is not a "him," but is one of Connecticut's two famed Methodist women preachers. The other is Miss Elsie F. Stowe, pastor of the church at North Wilton...
Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
...speakers will be: Reverend A. F. Hickey, Pastor of the St. Paul's Catholic Church, Cambridge, the Reverend Harry Levi, Rabbi of Temple Israel, Boston, and the Reverend Raymond Calkins '90, Pastor of the First Congregaional Church, Cambridge. The dinner will be informal...