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...Delamarian is pastor of the Mount Prospect Bible Church, which owns a $150,000 brick-and-stone building for services, a gymnasium, and five acres of land. Delamarian's Sunday services draw 200 or more. But what the people hear in his new church is the same strident Bible faith that he taught in the Chicago storefront. "I haven't changed the service," he says. "It's the same out here as in the city...
...Living God. Few of them have fulltime ministers. Church services emphasize oldtime hymns and sermons that pound home a basic Gospel message of Christ's saving grace. There is little or no liturgy. "We feel that all this rising and reading confuses the issue,'' says Pastor Delamarian. "Our message is simple: Have you been saved...
...theology of freedom, as espoused by the Prime Minister and the pastor, and as already practiced...
...Shuttlesworth, now 40, a Baptist minister whose stubborn courage was sometimes mitigated by his fondness for melodrama. Shuttlesworth threw himself against Birmingham's segregation barriers with predictable results: he has been arrested 20 times since 1958, suffered four bad beatings, and his home has been bombed. Now the pastor of a Cincinnati church, Shuttlesworth still spends much of his time in Birmingham, where he is currently involved in 27 court cases...
...vigorous years, Miss Sarah Porter was described by a Yale professor as "the most magnificent example of symmetrical womanhood that I have ever known"-meaning, of course, that her spiritual and intellectual attainments were in agreeable balance. Daughter of the Congregational pastor in Farmington, Conn., and sister of Yale President (1871-86) Noah Porter, she was a formidable teacher who at 30 launched a school in her father's house, where she cultivated some 20 young ladies at $200 a year...