Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the favorite text of the Rev. Stanley Frederick George, and some of the members of his First Presbyterian Church of San Bernardino, Calif, have wished on occasion that he didn't put quite so much emphasis on doing. But last week Pastor George was riding high: between him and the Kefauver committee, "San Berdoo's" bawdyhouses and poker parlors were facing an indeterminate period of hard times...
...riding the high horse." A few months after his arrival in San Bernardino in 1945, his round denunciations of school-board bickering pushed through the first school-board reform in years. Later, when a Navy veteran ran amuck and raped a minor, George defended him in court as his pastor, though no local attorney would take the case for less than $5,000, and won him probation. When the city council seemed about to kill a federal housing scheme in deference to real-estate interests, Pastor George, a realtor's son himself, blew his Presbyterian top at a council...
...Army veteran who had dropped $557 in a poker parlor came to the pastor with his tale of woe. George followed his directions ("Turn right at the top of the stairs, seventh door along the corridor on the right") and barged into a thriving dive just above the town's Bible Book Store...
...Beliefs Imply Action." It took Pastor George two days to get the police to do anything about it. When a police captain was finally assigned to investigate the place, and found gambling going on, he promptly left to get help. But George blocked the exit with his 205-lb. frame and nobody even tried to escape. Next morning, the exploit made the headlines, and letters began to pour in supporting his one-man crusade. For a week he patrolled the gambling and red-light belts each night, but the underworld seemed to have gone out of business...
...genuflector but I respect it as one of several simple maneuvers which have the same meaning of reverence . . . The mutual stimulation, reinforcement and encouragement that the individuals of a group receive from one another are well known to psychology, and the effect of a common relationship to a leader-pastor, rabbi or priest-has been carefully examined by many scientists, including Freud. Singing together has so great and obvious a value in furthering interpersonal linkages and enthusiasm in a common purpose that it is surprising that it was so long neglected by the Christian church ' and only introduced...