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Chaplain Laurel Garnett Gatlin was back on active service in the U.S. Navy last week. Said the 45-year-old Southern Baptist: "The Lord has overruled the injustices meted out to me in my removal from active duty by recalling me to do the thing I felt I had a right...
...thing handsome fundamentalist Chaplain Gatlin felt he had a right to do was to win sailors to Christ. In eight months, he converted 31 men. But the Navy found the Kentucky-born chaplain's sawdust-trail activities "embarrassing and disquieting," asked him to resign. When he stood his ground and refused, he was put on the inactive list (TIME, July...
...good thing Chaplain Gatlin wasn't around when your July 10 issue reached me here in Italy or he might have heard a chaplain swear...
During his Navy service Chaplain Gatlin converted 31 sailors. But many things about his work disturbed him. He did not like to baptize by sprinkling ("Contrary to Baptist belief and practice") or "to administer the Lord's Supper to any but baptized believers." He did not like Navy orders "not to tell the men what the Bible teaches concerning salvation," but to tell the men "character stories and that they must be willing to die for their country." He was stunned by rumors about "several chaplains who had gotten drunk," and he was shocked that some chaplains swear...
Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman, reported Chaplain Gatlin, "reprimanded me for my zeal in winning men to Christ, saying that there were other duties more important . . . told me ... that I did not have the Navy picture." Chaplain Gatlin added 'but I knew how to show a man who was dying how to go to Heaven." The Beacon termed the Navy chaplaincy situation "most deplorable," said "it concerns definitely every true Christian in the United States of America." The case of Chaplain Gatlin might be extreme. It was not new. Last year the Navy forced Chaplain Norbett G. Talbott to resign...