The Washington Post, April 22nd, 2005
The job of the Rev. Edward B. Lewis, a United Methodist pastor in the Washington area over the past 45 years, was to save souls. He also managed to save and grow congregations as the District's demographics changed. And in a dramatic incident early in his ministry, he also managed to save a despondent man's life. Mr. Lewis, 84, died of cancer April 12 at his home in Silver Spring. He was the pastor of Union Methodist Church when D.C. police pounded on his parsonage door in the early hours of July 11, 1956. A 23-year-old Air Force sergeant, Donald Seaman, was threatening to jump from a ledge o...
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