Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallpaper. After years of patching and making-do, the little church had finally had a major overhauling. As he arrived to lead the rededication service, the Rev. Samuel W. Robinson, superintendent of the 110 churches in the Methodists' Vmcennes District, could hardly believe his eyes. Sunlight gleamed on freshly waxed pews and on baskets of asters, zinnias and chrysanthemums. There were new cream-colored walls, a sturdy upright piano, and new runners on the aisles. Crisp new hymnals filled the racks...
...morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
...remembered for his philosophical discussions with his professor-priests and his probing questions in Latin. He also spoke fluent English, taught him by his Irish-Canadian mother (Mary Ann Broderick St. Laurent) and his bilingual father. After St. Laurent became Prime Minister, a newsman asked an old schoolmate, the Rev. Canon Dolor Biron of Sherbrooke, for incidents of St. Laurent's college days. Said the canon: "Mr. St. Laurent is a man who does not have incidents...
Later, some of the accusers confessed that they had sinned. Wrote the Rev. John Hale, who had been a witness against one of the witches: "We walked in clouds and could not see our way. And we have most cause to be humble for error . . . which cannot be retrieved." And indeed it could not be retrieved, for before the nine months' hysteria spent itself 20 innocent men & women had been executed in Salem...
...Czechoslovakia the government produced a package of priestly "high treason." The Rev. Alois Fajstl, the state announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus...