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...pastor never left Pittsburgh. To two generations of churchgoers, he has preached his same steady brand of orthodoxy, with the same grave eloquence. Sunday mornings and evenings, a good half of his 2,500-member congregation make their way downtown from outlying residential districts to hear him preach. On Tuesdays, as many as 600 local businessmen drop in at the First Church for his noon meetings (a cafeteria lunch and two short sermons...
Souls First. Not far from retirement now, Pastor Macartney, 72, is slightly less pessimistic about the state of the church in the U.S. than he once was. "Modernism," he says, "is not nearly so belligerent as it was. The barrenness of it has been demonstrated." But, to a man strong in the fundamentals of the Gospel, the kid-glove handling of the question of sin in many U.S. pulpits is still hard to take. Says Macartney: "One reason why we have so few conversions is that we don't ask people to repent...
...four sons became ministers. The others: the Rev. J. Robertson Macartney, pastor emeritus of the Palm Springs (Calif.) Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Albert J. McCartney, pastor emeritus of Washington's National Presbyterian Church; the late Rev. Ernest McCartney of Los Angeles...
Rising Temperature. In Guymon, Okla., the Rev. James C. Hester, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, chose as the topic of his Sunday sermon: "Will Hell Be as Hot as the Republican National Convention...
This week, just before Sunday's 10 o'clock Mass, a special-delivery mailman brought a carefully wrapped package to Pastor Cioffi's rectory. The crowns were inside. There was no letter of explanation and contrition. Monsignor Cioffi needed none. He sped to the altar, told the news to his parishioners...