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Loyally Bishop Meisser's flock stuck by him. Fortnight ago he went out to a mountain village to preach. Eight hundred hulking woodsmen filled the pockets of their leather breeches with stones and dared Nazi Storm Troopers to interfere. Then last week the whisper was passed about Munich: "Go to the Mattiaskirche on Thursday evening. Bishop Meisser will have something...
...only was Bishop Meisser deposed and placed under arrest, but a long list of other pastors was forbidden to preach. Henceforth Bishop Meisser's old diocese would be split in two and the Bishop's duties assigned to two Nazi-appointed commissioners...
...argued that a bishop should take his diocese as a life work and not cherish ambitions for a richer and more potent one. But Bishop Manning suffered defeat on another matter when the Bishops voted (49-to-38) that the Church's 213 deaconesses may marry and, furthermore, preach. ¶ Ordered by the Presiding Bishop to dispose "once and for all" of the seventh plea for reinstatement of Heretic William Montgomery Brown, ousted bishop (TIME, Oct. 8), a committee did so by, advising the Bishops to reject it. The Bishops concurred. ¶ A Young People's Conference tingled...
...producer) pries into the sexual problems of a handsome young North Carolina mountaineer (Shepperd Strudwick) whom neither God nor the girls can let alone. Off and on he turns down the prettiest wench (Joanna Roos) and the richest heiress in the hills (Virginia Milne) and reiterates his call to preach the Word. Finally the strumpet's father takes up his squirrel rifle and puts a bullet through the novice preacher's heart. Sighs the boy's aunt: "You was too big for your britches." Of such ancient and sure-fire material, the authors have made a puttering...
...called to a big city church, to have a good house and an automobile, to preach on Sunday to a well-washed, pleasant-smelling congregation-such is the ambition of many a U. S. pastor. He may hope that such a post may prove a stepping stone to a bishopric, a moderatorship or a place on an important committee. Noteworthy is a pastor who reverses the process, leaves a big church to minister to a poor small...