Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sundays ago in Seattle's solid old Pilgrim Congregational Church, Rev. Frederic William Shorter mounted his pulpit, looked squarely at his congregation of 400, said briskly: "Yes, I preach revolution. Next Sunday, if I am still pastor, I will preach on 'The Insanity of Jesus.' It always has been insanity to preach the brotherhood...
Last Sunday Preacher Shorter no longer was pastor of Pilgrim Church. The congregation which called him there eight years ago, chiefly at the behest of President Alfred Helmer Lundin of Seattle's Chamber of Commerce, had voted him out. Chief reason was that "Fred" Shorter, 39, Australian-born graduate of Missouri State University and Yale Divinity School, had. like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist. He believed that "Christianity and Capitalism as they now exist are not compatible"; that Christianity itself is "historic Communism." a peaceful force to transform the social order. Pastor Shorter promoted a "Consumers...
Last week conservatives found an issue on which to battle their pastor to a finish. In Pilgrim Church's study room, given four years ago by Founder-Board Chairman Elbridge Amos Stuart of Carnation Co. (milk products), there had appeared seven murals done by a young people's art class under the supervision of Ross Gill. Subjects of the murals...
...Brewster & Co. to be proud of Mr. Inskip's new product. The founder died at the height of his fame as a carriage maker 19 years before Mr. Inskip was born, 38 years before England ever heard of a Rolls-Royce. James Brewster, descendant of William Brewster, Mayflower Pilgrim, was a wagonmaker's apprentice at 16. He moved from Northampton, Mass. to New Haven, began making "Brewster wagons'' in his own shop. When they became famed, he branched out into
...Congregational & Christian Church is a three-year-old merger of a stout body which stems from the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620, and a small left-wing Methodist sect formed in 1792. With a million-odd members in 6,000 churches, the C. & C. Church has a moderator but no ponderous machinery to run things from the top. With New England firmness the individual churches do their own thinking and talking. This church last week was the first to come out against the scheme of Chicago's Adolph Oettinger Goodwin to gear piety with business in such a way that...