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...Congregationalist conference in Chicago, Dr. Malcolm Dana, Director of Town & Country department of the Congregational Church Extension Board for the past ten years, made a lugubrious confession. He said: "As a result of four years study of rural conditions, we find that only one-fifth of country people go to church. There are 101,000 town and country churches in America. Two-fifths of them are standing still or losing ground. There are 38,000 rural churches, or 42% of all, which have no pastors...
Last week the trustees of the Broadway Tabernacle offered to increase by $2,500 Dr. Jefferson's yearly salary of $10,000, thereby making him the highest paid U. S. Congregationalist minister.? At the annual church dinner, the Rev. Dr. Charles Edward Jefferson, whose ability is the result of many years of intelligent effort, refused to have his salary raised. Said he: ". . . My needs are simple and the present salary is enough to care for them despite the increased cost of living during 30 years. I have never wanted more than a Ford...
...went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.). The chief of Chaplains will become College Chaplain...
...Army there are 125 chaplains. Chief among them is John T. Axton, Congregationalist native of Salt Lake City, Utah. Chief of Chaplains Axton is apparently hale, and only 52. Hence he is not due for retirement until...
...Axton would be involuntarily retired or not appeared to depend upon the lobbying strength of various church organizations in sympathy with his efforts to obtain for modest "sky pilots," Army rankings which they consider commensurate with the spiritual plane of their duties. Should Chief of Chaplains Axton, the Utah Congregationalist, be retired, next in line for his post would be Chaplain E. P. Easterbrook, Methodist Episcopalian now stationed at Fort Sam Houston...