Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...
Over 300 years ago a minister by the name of Thomas Shepard was pastor of the church in Cambridge and figured prominently in having Harvard College founded at its present site. In his memory the two branches of the First Church of Cambridge have erected a bronze plaque on the iron fence bordering the Yard near Wadsworth House...
...plaque reads: "In honor of Thomas Shepard, Pastor of the Church in Cambridge, 1637-1649. It was with respect unto the vigilancy and enlightening and powerful ministry of Mr. Shepard that when the foundation of a college was to be laid, Cambridge rather than any other place was picked upon to be the seat of that happy seminary." --Cotton Mather...
Very soon upon his arrival he was chosen pastor of the church in Cambridge constituted after Thomas Hooker had moved to Connecticut. In 1636 a plan for an institution of learning was brought before the General Court, and there was some question as to its location...
...Talmadge's fire has been directed at Roosevelt's wooing Negro votes far below the Mason-Dixon line. Moreover, for the first time in years, South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, who walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia when a Negro pastor was called on to pray, last month managed to put some life into his traditional campaign plank: White Supremacy...