Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became fascinated by the discovery that some basic Chinese characters have their origin in the signs of the solar zodiac. In spite of the press of more urgent business-he was an official of the Y.M.C.A. in China, director of prisoner relief in Siberia during World War I, pastor at Cornell University until 1942-Dr. Moran found time to dig deeper into the historical ABCs. eventually evolved a basic theory. The alphabet, says he* could have had its origin only in some great "organizing principle" common to the ancient world as 'far back as 1400 B.C. The only principle...
...Cambridge itself had been settled only two years before as a "fortified place." Since the meeting house had no bell, the congregation gathered to the roll of a drum. The sober Elders later were able to buy a bell, but their jubilation was short-lived. For Thomas Hooker, their pastor, migrated to Connecticut, leaving only eleven families behind in Cambridge...
...space for a larger church. The new structure was a square frame building with fifty-six pews and a gallery in front for students. Since there was little room in the gallery, seats were hinged so that they could be raised for standing prayers. Students listened reverently to the pastor's prayers, but the "amens" were usually followed by a thundering crash as freshmen and sophomores competed in the art of seat-slamming. Until the clatter had subsided, hymns were almost inaudible. Noisy students were not as riotous as their contemporaries from the town, however. One Sunday afternoon...
...from Manhattan's fashionable Calvary Church. Layman Moreell, who will serve as chairman of the Pittsburgh Experiment's board of trustees, announced that the campaign will be guided by a full-time executive director, the Rev. William H. Cohea Jr., graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and former pastor of the Daniels Park Presbyterian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...This may be the result of the warmth of your church atmosphere . . . The European churches consist of individuals, the American ones more of families." The clublike sociability of U.S. Protestant churches reminds Bishop Berggrav of "the social trend so often noticeable in the New Testament . . . In the U.S.A. a pastor or a parish worker may be approached by any man wanting his advice . . . about how to secure a good used car or something. This in Europe is not considered the proper thing for a Gospel-man to be engaged in . . . We think we are more pious, and we claim...