Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pastor Dulles' Eldest. Around the turn of the century, people living along Lake Ontario's Henderson Harbor would sometimes see a stirring sight: Pastor Allen Macy Dulles, wife and five children, having been to church, lustily singing such Protestant hymns as "Work, for the Night...
John Foster Dulles, the pastor's eldest son, was born in 1888, in the Washington residence of grandfather John Watson Foster, who fought in the Civil War, served as U.S. minister to Mexico, U.S. minister to Russia, and, when John Foster was four years old, became Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State. He was to leave a deep impression on his grandson-recounting his adventures and opening up a world of great events, as man & boy sat hour after hour fishing in Lake Ontario. In 1895, grandfather Foster helped negotiate the end of the Sino-Japanese War, with...
Bending Twig. John Foster grew up under the hand of old-fashioned authority. He got caned and had his ears cuffed for throwing spitballs in school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who once became so appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called...
...grandfather had other ideas. When John Foster graduated from high school, Diplomat Foster sent his grandson to Switzerland for six months to study French. In 1904-the year when Pastor Dulles gave up his church to take the chair of Apologetics at the Auburn Theological Seminary-John Foster began his college career in Princeton. The twig was not yet fully bent, but grandfather was bending...
Last week Presbyterian Macdonald, 36, now pastor of Edinburgh's St. George's West Church, told Americans how to clean up the kind of corrosion he has found outside the Isle of Skye. To a big midsummer congregation in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and to students at Union Theological Seminary, he gave the same message: "The thing wrong with religion today the world over, and especially in America, is that it is too centrally heated, too cozy and comfortable." His remedy: less social psychology and good fellowship, more emphasis on an austere gospel of sacrifice...