Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, July 21]." Demonstrated by whom, when, where? Dr. Macartney's statement is one that sounds good if you say it quickly, but won't stand examination. To consider only one example, let's look at Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the missionary in the Belgian Congo. While Pastor Macartney has been preaching to congregations of educated, cultured people, some of whom doubtless are fairly wealthy, Dr. Schweitzer ministers to African natives untaught in the ways of polite society, ignorant, poor, and unable to repay him except in the coin of gratitude and love. But by Dr. Macartney...
Heroldsbach's pious farmers believed them. Led by Father Johannes Gailer, 65, the village pastor, they marched to the hillside spot the children described. A few days later, two other children ran home to describe similar visions. Soon people from neighboring towns began flocking to the new holy place...
Weather or Not. In Montgomery, Ala., Dr. Vernon Johns, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, announced church services with a newspaper ad: "Beat the heat for God. Brave a reasonable amount of heat now instead of risking too much hereafter...
...first postwar years, Pastor Theodor Distelmann, holding services in the ruins of the Magnuskirche, sadly wondered where the money to rebuild his church would come from. His old friend, Pastor Alfred Herrnbrodt, thought he knew a way to get some. In 1949, when the 400-year-old "Luther Elm" on Pastor Herrnbrodt's property died, the pastor commissioned a woodcarver to make 30,000 small "Luther roses" and 500 "Luther plaques" out of the tree, which was rich in Lutheran tradition.* Sale of the mementos (plus a recently granted West German government subsidy) should bring in enough to meet...
...Pastor Herrnbrodt was touring the U.S. last week, arranging for the sale of his Luther mementos, already on sale in Germany and Sweden. U.S. price: roses $1, plaques $10. In Worms last week, workmen began to build a new Magnuskirche over the ruined Romanesque arches...