Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long ago as the summer of 1946, plump, slick-pated Jerry E. Hauff, pastor of the Full Gospel Assemblies in Christ Inc. Church of Van Nuys, Calif., got the word that doomsday was approaching. "Voices from heaven" speaking incoherent foreign tongues had brought it to him. He translated for his congregation and reported that a great storm from the north was going to knock off all mankind-all, that is, who didn't sell their property and flee to the mountains...
...ouster) have been replaced in parish elections. Last week, by a vote of 119 to 11, the congregation handed the new vestrymen the name of the man they want for rector. The name: William Howard Melish. Further recommendation by the congregation: that father John Howard be invited back as pastor emeritus. The vestrymen promised to think it over...
Died. The Rev. James R. Cox, 65, Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic "pastor of the poor," who set up a soup kitchen and a tar-papered "Shantytown" for depression victims, led some 10,000 of them (in 1,000 cars and trucks) in a protest march on Washington in January 1932; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh. On the arrival of "Cox's Army"* in Washington, Father Cox had a 20-minute chat with President Hoover (who gave "intense sympathy"), went on to form his short-lived Jobless Party, was briefly its candidate for President, gave up to support...
...Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Mass., says Sherrill, "I began to find my feet." Seminary friends remember him as a high-spirited young man with winning ways and a good game of tennis. But World War I taught him more than the seminary. After three years as an assistant pastor at Boston's Trinity Church, he was appointed chaplain of Base Hospital 6 at Talence, France. Here the 26-year-old pastor became a man in a hurry. During the 1918 influenza epidemic, he says, "I talked to practically no one who wasn't dying." He also discovered...
...real job is to be a pastor to people," he said recently. "No one ought to look forward to an administrative position...