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Powerful. Sam Rayburn's job has often been called the "second most powerful job in the nation." From the days of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, the German Lutheran pastor who presided over Congress' first sessions in New York, Speakers of the House have written their will and words into U.S. history. Some of the mighty...
...Flying to China, India, Australia was famed writer and preacher Daniel A. Poling. Pastor of Philadelphia's Baptist Temple, president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, a worldwide youth organization, Poling will visit U.S. chaplains and troops, write articles for the Christian Science Monitor and the widely read monthly Christian Herald, of which he is editor in chief...
Outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller is still in Dachau concentration camp near Munich. Last year the Gestapo put him in a cell with two Catholic priests, hoping they could convert one another to formation of a German na tional church. That failed; now Niemöller is back in solitary confinement, well treated, given any books he wants to read...
...five. Born on Manhattan's West 134th Street, he grew up next door to P.S. 89. This made it easy for his mother, who had eleven other children, to lean out of the window and call, "How's Tom doin'?" His father was pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, now the largest Baptist congregation in the world, where Tom took up the organ...
...Nazis were furious. Twice they told the pastor to remove the stone; twice he refused. Then he got the order from the local Nazi big shot. The pastor's reply: "I have buried this Englishman and he now rests in hallowed earth. So long as I am pastor of this church, none, not even the Wehrmacht, shall violate this place...