Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Huddled close together for warmth in the pews of the village church at Buchau, pious farmer folk heard their beloved pastor explain from the pulpit, last week, why Europe has been visited with the coldest winter of the century...
...angry at the shameless city women!" thundered the pastor. "His eye is offended by their short skirts, from beneath which peeps the wanton whiteness of their limbs. God is not mocked with impunity! He has sent this piercing cold to make the city women feel His wrath and lengthen their skirts. That is why your vines are blighted my friends! . . . Let us now join in prayer. God's will be done...
When correspondents from nearby Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) hastened out to query the pastor, he exclaimed...
...preached and preached; he preached all morning and far into the afternoon; he ate his lunch in the pulpit. Thus did he prevent his appointed successor, the Rev. C. M. Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that he was still fighting...
Died. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, 71, famed Congregational clergyman, and onetime pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn, where he upheld the traditions of preachers Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, after a month's illness; at Bronxville...