Word: pastoreize
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...small communities, a competition which leads to poor sermons, impoverished churches, shabby rivalries between small congregations. They agreed that communities of 1,000 persons, if provided with more than one Protestant edifice, were "overchurched." Per contra, every 1,000 persons should support one Protestant edi- fice, one resident pastor, one Sunday School, a regular weekly service...
...virtually consummated. Others are possible (TIME, Dec. 5). Mr. Eaton is worth $50,000,000 himself.± He is a partner in Otis & Co., Cleveland, investment bankers.± Only a few years ago, a newcomer to Cleveland, he was preaching in a small Baptist church whenever the regular pastor was absent. His voice remains mellow & resonant. Unostentatiously he gives much money to church needs, hunts with hounds, rears seven children. Although democratic, Otis & Co. employes hold him in greater awe than they do Charles A. ("Charlie") Otis, head of the firm...
...unfortunate that the Major's conduct is not typical of the attitude of the church at large to such onslaughts. Usually when a pastor sees a menacing umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...
...George Arthur Buttrick, now pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan,† was at Buffalo when he told a group of Presbyterian ministers how he evaded the enticements of his morning paper. He always read it standing up and so remained always aware that he must spend no time on drivel no matter how entertainingly written. That was shrewd self-management, remarked the Presbyterians, and his formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against...
...another article Editor Leach advised ministers on what they should demand of congregations. The pastor "has the right to presuppose that his people; come to church prepared to worship...