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...manse of the Rev. Leslie A. Bechtel is modestly called the "Cottage." But Pastor Bechtel of the Presbyterian Kirk-in-the-Hills in suburban Bloomfield Hills, Mich, has three gardeners to take care of his 30 acres of grounds, including the nine-hole golf course and the badminton and tennis courts. The manse itself is furnished with such creature comforts as antique chairs valued at $1,000 each and a $10,000 Persian carpet. Under construction near by is a new church, modeled after Scotland's Melrose Abbey, that wilt have cost about $3½ million by the time...
...short, 66-year-old Pastor Bechtel enjoys what are probably the most lavish and luxurious Presbyterian surroundings in the world. This week, of his own free will, he turned his back on it all. and set out for a log cabin in the Wisconsin north woods, where he plans to spend the rest of his life...
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...
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...
Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...