Word: pastors
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When Evangelist Billy Graham began drawing crowds to Washington's National Guard armory with his prayer "crusade" (TIME, Jan. 28), most of the capital's Protestant clergymen looked on with either approval or polite silence. Not so the Rev. A. Powell Davies, pastor of Washington's socially prominent All Souls' Unitarian Church. Fortnight ago, in a sermon reported in Washington newspapers, Dr. Davies expressed Unitarian disapproval of Billy Graham's oldtime religion. Said he: "Heaven and hell, the description of God, the provision of a supernatural salvation-all these, at best, are mere assertions...
Last week, in a letter to the Washington Post, Glasgow-born Dr. George Docherty, pastor of historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, took up Evangelist Graham's defense: "Unitarians may not believe in the Revealed Truth of God in Holy Scripture, but those who do may not all be living in a 'religious dark age' . . . Dr. Graham did not come to Washington to put 'guilty ideas' into the minds of the youth of the city ... These 'guilt complexes,' so dear to the psychologist's heart, are as old as the Garden...
When the council's president, the Rev. W. W. Breckbill, pastor of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Altoona, Pa., asked for an appointment with the President, he was turned down. The White House reply: Truman has made up his mind on the Vatican issue, and the council had better go on over to Congress. Taking the cue, the pilgrims held a mass meeting in the lobby of the Washington Hotel and prayed for the success of their mission. Then, wearing large green lapel discs proclaiming "Keep church and state separate," they marched on Capitol Hill. Texas' Senator...
That night, the pilgrims paraded to Constitution Hall for a rally. Anti-Catholic literature was passed out. The Rev. Carl Mclntire, a deposed minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., now pastor of his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" of Collingswood, N.J., said: "Communism is an enemy; we are all against it. But we have another enemy too, older, shrewder. It is Roman Catholicism and its bid for world power. In the U.S., it is Spellmanism...
...brief statement in December, Harvard reported that the inclusion on the War Memorial Plaque in Memorial Church of Adolf Sannwald, a Divinity student from 1924 to 1925, was a mistake and his name would be removed. Sannwald, a pastor of a church in Stuttgart, was drafted as a "common soldier" in June of 1942 and sent to Russia. At the time of his death a year later, however, he was serving as a chaplain...