Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming year, the Northern Presbyterians elected a longtime champion of denominational union, Kansas-born Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, 58. A topnotch preacher who started out to be a sanitary engineer, then switched to the ministry and became a chaplain in World War I, he has served as pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church for the past 23 years. In his acceptance speech, Harrison Anderson denounced "the civic rottenness" that is blighting U.S. cities. "Let the Church of Jesus Christ become again the salt," he cried, "to be rubbed in-if necessary-until it smarts...
Reynolds took the first step in 1949, and it was a bold one: engaging the Rev. Clifford H. Peace, a 40-year-old Methodist minister, as "pastor-counselor" of the company, Reynolds President John C. Whitaker posted the company's reasons on bulletin boards at the office building and at each of the company's eight factory buildings in Winston-Salem...
Almost the first thing Pastor-Counselor Peace did at Reynolds was to ask for the chapel, get its design and construction approved and into the works. Then he settled down to learning the job and writing the rules as he went along. Six hours a day for eight months he walked through offices, factories and warehouses, personally meeting 12,000-odd employees. For two hours more each day, he let it be known, he would be in his office for counseling. Only a few came at first, but gradually counseling work increased. Before the end of his first year...
...hammering echoed up & down the mountain-more noise than the little campus had ever heard, since the day Pastor Kelly first opened it in 1926 with twelve would-be mountain preachers. By 8 a.m. the floor beams were down on the foundations prepared beforehand. By noon, when the basket lunches were served, the main framework of the cottages was up. By 3 p.m. there were walls; by 4, doors and windows. By sunset, men were working on the roofs...
...Book of Kings: "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed . . . and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." The "little chamber" that the 700 built that day for Pastor Kelly and his school turned out to be 19 brand-new, four-room cottages. By nightfall, as the people drove away, lights were already burning in some of them...