Word: rector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bravo to Rector Kinsolving for saying, "Hell is a damnable doctrine ... is responsible for a large measure of the world's hatred [Dec. 30]." He has the courage to preach the beliefs that others in the clergy don't even dare to admit to their parishioners...
West Germany's Professor Walter Hallstein, 56, representing "Little Europe's" foremost industrial power, got the top job of the new European Economic Community. A former Frankfurt University rector who, as Under Secretary in the Foreign Ministry, ably negotiated some of Konrad Adenauer's most notable diplomatic accomplishments (the basic treaties with the Allies, the Saar treaty with France, Israeli reparations, Schuman Plan membership), Bachelor Lawyer Hallstein has won the full confidence of der Alte as a "good European," sure to work devotedly for the ultimate creation of a larger free-trading area that will include Britain...
...Sidewalk. Young Rector Kinsolving's congregation obviously likes the shaking he is giving it. He moved to Pasco four months ago from a mission vicarage in California, an earlier tour as intern chaplain at San Quentin Prison and two years as an adman in Philadelphia and Phoenix. Ariz., has a strong Episcopal family background (his father, grandfather, great-uncle and cousin were or are bishops ). Said a fellow clergyman: "Who's Who is on his side-even if Episcopal doctrine is not." At Pasco, Kinsolving has broken all church attendance records, more than doubled church pledges...
...trouble began with a sermon in Pasco's Church of Our Saviour by energetic Rector Charles Lester Kinsolving, 30. "Hell," he preached, "is a damnable doctrine-responsible for a large measure of this world's hatred. According to this doctrine, God, who commands us to love our enemies, plays the hypocrite by damning his enemies. This in turn stimulates the hatred of God by people who abhor hypocrisy-and it gives sanction to our hatred of certain selected enemies...
Subject of Rector Kinsolving's sermon this week: Heaven...