Word: pastoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER, 42, Kansas City, Mo.; active as pastor; was Y.M.C.A. truck driver...
...York Evening Post sent one Kenneth Campbell, reporter, to interview the Stratons last week. He was meticulously observant and took obvious pleasure in relating how he found Pastor Straton in bed late in the afternoon, "clad in an old-fashioned night shirt. . . . From a gas jet at the head of the bed hung Dr. Straton's black waistcoat, from which dangled the medal he won in a college oratorical contest many years...
...Pastor Straton's bed was covered with newspapers, disarrayed. Warren Badenock Straton sat at the foot of the bed reading the newspapers...
...Reporter Kenneth Campbell's pocket Pastor Straton noted a copy of Bernarr Macfadden's tabloid Graphic, and asked to see it. The reporter described: "The family gathered around the bed to inspect it. At the first glance Dr. Straton sat bolt upright and Mrs. Straton who was holding the newspaper emitted sorrowful clucks. The-pastor's noseglasses slipped from his nose and he fumbled for them among the covers, retrieved them and put them in place. His eyes narrowed with anger as he looked at the picture...
...Cried Pastor Straton: "It [the picture] is an outrage. I'll make those people sorry they ever did such a thing...