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Studying law at the University of Wisconsin, he got a job as janitor at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison. Its pastor was the Rev. George E. Hunt, a smoking and drinking, social-gospel liberal who was something new in young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Woods | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Socialism Second. After a three-year course at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary on a scholarship, Bechtel went' to Butte in 1913 as pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church there. Salary: $75 a month. His angry pro-labor sermons won him the support of the Socialists, who ran him for state senator. Though he refused to campaign, he won anyway. Senator Bechtel introduced bills for adult education and workmen's compensation and against capital punishment. But when he introduced a bill for Prohibition, the Socialists dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Woods | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...this political activity did Bechtel small good with his church. After three years, they refused to renew his contract, and he moved on. For the next three decades, he served a series of parishes, on both sides of the tracks, gained some reputation as a radio preacher in Wisconsin, and in 1944 found himself executive secretary of the Detroit Presbytery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Woods | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...October 1946, his telephone rang. Someone he had never heard of before wanted to give the Presbyterians a church. Bechtel hurried right over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Woods | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Colonel Edwin S. George, a rich, nonchurchgoing Presbyterian businessman (real estate) with heart trouble, already had the plans drawn up for the church he wanted to build on his estate. Bechtel agreed to become the first pastor of the Kirk-in-the-Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Woods | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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