Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above the spray of white gladioli appeared the plump, beaming face of the pastor, the smile serving as a minor sun to the shining flowers. For a moment he stood silently, "just loving the audience," as he once put it. Then the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale began to preach. He had preached the same theme many times before, not only from the pulpit but at countless business-club lunches, on TV, in newspaper columns, magazine pieces, and in a book (The Power of Positive Thinking) which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for almost two years...
...circulation of 656,000, or more than The New Yorker. And his nationally syndicated column, Confident Living, runs in more papers (146) than Leonard Lyons'. A statistical-minded friend of Dr. Peale's once calculated that the U.S. suffers from 7.5 billion headaches a year, and the pastor's great message is that religion can cure almost all of them. He sees in Christianity not so much redemption by suffering as an easy way to "rise above sorrow...
...member of the Brooks House Association, who refused to be named, last night asserted that Hastie has been pressured by the University administration to withdraw his offers--at least until the arrival in Cambridge of the newly elected Chairman of the Board of Preachers, George A. Buttrick, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City...
...singleness of goal. In 1943, he toyed with the idea of joining up as a G.I., decided against it, instead volunteered for the chaplains' corps. Later he withdrew from the corps, saw no war service at all (as a minister he was draft exempt). After a year as pastor of a small basement church in Western Springs, Ill. (the active congregation more than doubled while Billy was there), he joined an organization called "Youth for Christ," founded in Chicago to combat delinquency among teenagers. As a Youth-for-Christer, Billy traveled all over the U.S. and the world, preaching...
...order additional literature, known as an I.R. (for Instruction in Righteousness) Pack. Meanwhile, three duplicates of the "decision card'' are typed up, one for the current working file, one for the future follow-up file, and one to be sent to the convert's local pastor with instructions to get to work (if the "baby Christian" has no pastor, one is chosen by a committee). If the pastor does not report back on the convert in a few weeks, he gets a jogging letter from headquarters and, eventually, a visitation...