Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PASTOR TO THE HOLY LAND IN '56." But perhaps the most understanding present of all is offered by Pageant Press, Inc.: "YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED . . . Send manuscript for free report...
...tension had been rising for weeks. Among the Louisiana rice marshes and stands of sugar cane around the little (pop. 2,500) town of Erath, 125 miles west of New Orleans, groups of white folks gathered to pass along the latest rumors about the new pastor. Father Labbe was holding catechism classes without the usual row of empty chairs between 650 white and 75 Negro children. He was going to mix the kids all up, people whispered, by putting them in alphabetical order and having them confirmed by the bishop in that order. Father Labbe, it seemed...
Last week the excommunication was lifted; those to whom it had applied, it was announced, had made reparation. The congregation received the bishop's hopeful blessing, and the catechism class was declared reopened. But Pastor Labbe, though disclaiming any plans for integration beyond the classroom, was not sure peace had really descended among the rice fields. Said he: "We shall have to wait and see what the future brings...
First Baptist employs a staff of two associate pastors, an assistant pastor and social-service director, a full-time child expert, an organist-music director, an assistant music director, a day-nursery director, a building superintendent, three janitors, a full-time hostess, four secretaries and assorted part-time help...
Back-country preachers still thunder against the evils of rum, Romanism and romance on the dance floor, and even sophisticated city preachers go in for melodramatics; when Joseph Stalin died, Pastor Wayne Dehoney of Birmingham's Central Park Baptist Church hauled a coffin into his sanctuary and preached a sermon on the evils of dictatorship (in newspaper ads he labeled it "Stalin's funeral oration"). But, on the whole, it is the new facts rather than the old, familiar figures of Southern Baptism that are important...