Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardinal Segura's own Seville last week, a group of young Roman Catholics anticipated the cardinal's remarks with a more direct protest against toleration. A gang of well-dressed young men burst into the tiny, secluded Protestant chapel of St. Basil, struck Pastor Santos Martin Molin in the face, poured gasoline over the altar and tried to set the church afire. Said a Spanish government spokesman: "A negligible, isolated incident." In Madrid, a Protestant pastor brandished a pamphlet published by a Catholic organization, in which Protestants were denounced as "libertines, women of easy virtue and traitors...
...lyrical streak of the novel. As it stands it is simply a sordid and weighty story of the racial injustice of South Africa. An excellent story, I hasten to add, but one so poignant that it needs relief of some sort. From the very beginning when the old native pastor sets off to seek his lost sister and son in the hellhole of Johannesburg, and through the whole story of his agonies on learning that his sister is a prostitute and his son a murderer, and also in the collateral story of the sufferings of the English landowner whose...
Intellectually, then, it is important that all the major opinion be brought out and scrutinized. But the movie version inexplicably omits one whole school of thought, that of the semi-revolutionary natives, embodied in the colored pastor's brother, a great agitator in Johannesburg. This severely damages the intellectual balance of the Christian solution have only to defeat the relatively poor arguments of the white supremacists...
...young pastor, McConnell put his own ideas into practice. When a wealthy lady willed $2,500 to his church at West Chelmsford, Mass, for "religious purposes," he shocked the elders by proposing to turn over the money to the town for better street lights. The horrified elders voted him down. At Brooklyn's New York Avenue Methodist Church, his first important pastorate, the well-heeled parishioners wanted him to concentrate on pulpit oratory. McConnell made the point, and won it, that "ringing doorbells" in parish work was equally important...
Friends & Enemies. Gradually Pastor McConnell's vigorous church work got him the grudging admiration of the orthodox. At the Methodist General Conference in 1912, when he was only 40, he was made a bishop. "At present," he observes, "the bishops have quite a bit of ceremony for the new men. There was nothing of this kind in 1912. One of the bishops said, 'We are meeting in Room B. Come on in.' I went in." When he came out, the new bishop had been assigned to the Denver area (including Methodist missions in Mexico), where he traveled...