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...Cried Preacher Fifield: "We think Congregationalism has a unique genius to contribute to the cause of freedom in the U.S. The merger will destroy that-the autonomous, free, local church in contrast to the capital-C church on the national level...
Walking Man. Pearson* has been studying nature ever since he was six, when his father, a Congregational preacher, began taking him on country strolls around Hancock, N.H. He began writing Sunday features while teaching high-school English at Utica, N.Y., quit schoolteaching seven years ago to become a full-time nature...
...preacher, Martin Luther gave vigorous, arresting sermons, strong with earthy instances. On the theme of Christmas he sometimes preached for more than a month-from the beginning of Advent to Epiphany. In the recently published Martin Luther Christmas Book (Westminster Press, $2.50), Translator Roland H. Bainton has arranged samplings from these sermons on the Nativity. Excerpts...
...Elected as new Council president white-haired Bishop John Samuel Stamm, 70, of the Evangelical United Brethren. Son of a lay preacher, jovial, ham-handed John Stamm grew up on a Kansas farm with an early hankering to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War (he was "just too young for the job"). As good an administrator as he is a preacher, President-elect Stamm has served as vice president of the Federal Council for the past two years, under the presidency of Layman Charles P. Taft. He doubts that his administration will "set the world on fire." Said...
...seven nights last week, in the vast, vaulted cavern of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, thousands of New Yorkers crowded in to get a feeling of the fear and hope and comfort of religion from the Rev. Bryan Green of Birmingham, England. Anglican Preacher Green was providing New York with a sight not seen there since the 1880s-a diocese-wide revival mission under the auspices of the Episcopal Church...