Training to Be a Clergyman
The Watchtower, July 15, 1955
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At Pasadena, California, 22-year-old Bernard York, a theological student at Pasadena Nazarene College, pleaded guilty in municipal court to a charge of cat-torturing. The youth admitted that he doused a cat with alcohol and then set the cat ablaze, watching the flames and hearing the shrieks. The judge, who placed the boy on a year’s probation with no jail term, commented that the youth is a “normal, intelligent and industrious student with a background of Christian training and anxious to become a minister.” (Los Angeles Examiner, April 16, 1955) One cannot help but wonder if the boy is training to become a teacher of the sizzling flames and shrieks that make up the fictitious clergy-inspired hell of eternal torment.
Also in this issue
- Announcements
- Charlemagne Pious_ Yes—Christian_ No!
- Check Your Memory
- Disappointed Boy Burns Church
- How Bible Principles Apply to Your Life
- More Manufacturing Dextran
- Part 14—Fight Carried into the Law Courts
- Part 2—Visiting Jehovah’s Witnesses in Central America
- Questions From Readers
- Should the Bible Be Your Guide
- The Peace That Follows War from Heaven
- War from Heaven Brings Peace to Earth