Word: sexton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minister Blake's first post was as assistant pastor of Manhattan's now demolished Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, where, even the sexton told him he "ought to shout more." He decided that he was "a better popularizer than a scholar," and should give up a hankering he had for seminary teaching. He got a call to Albany's First Presbyterian Church, went on five years later to the Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Calif., where he stayed for eleven years before the General Assembly elected him Stated Clerk...
When an earthquake nearly destroyed the church in 1928, the urn and its contents were found intact. Delfin Rojas, the church sexton, made it his special business to guard the urn while the church was rebuilt, and still preserves it carefully in a belltower storage room, among tattered and dusty saints and icons. Last week Interior Minister Luis Augusto Dubuc promised Sucre that General Garcia's remains this year will at last find their ultimate resting place in the Pantheon, as Venezuela marks the 150th anniversary of its independence...