Word: clingman
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Others who have acted similarly are: Tertius van Dyke who left Park Avenue Presbyterian Church for a Connecticut village charge; Charles Clingman whom St. Thomas' could not lure from smoky Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Harris E. Kirk who has remained in peaceful Baltimore despite the insistences of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
Their motives have varied. Pastors Wicks and Clingman have just started their wealthy congregations on movements of community welfare (as Dr. Coffin has already done in Manhattan), work which they feel they cannot conscientiously abandon. Dr. Kirk would not leave his life-long friends. Young Dr. van Dyke simply requires the spiritual benefits of rusticity...