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Three days before Christmas the unhappy pastor of the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church, outside Detroit, sent a letter to the Detroit Council of Churches. Wrote tall, reddish-haired, 32-year-old Merrill O. Bates: "I deeply regret that you have worded your entrance requirements so as to make membership in the Council impossible for the following churches: Latter-Day Saints [Mormon], Christian Science and Unitarian. Our sons, our fathers, our brothers are dying on land and sea that justice and freedom-yea, even the Christian Religion might live, while we at home draw circles around our love." Mr. Bates probably...
Gist of the Hall sermons: pray, drive the devil out, live right, read the Bible. Pastor Hall never asks for donations, but he gets enough for rent, food, rummage-sale clothes and stray dollars to give away "if the person seems worthy." When he tires, three elderly women spell him, but the Pastor is apt to preach from early morning to midnight. Says he: "My only worry is that I'm so happy I hate to go to bed at night...
...Pastor Hall began his telephone ministry when someone dialed him by mistake. It has been spread by: 1) word-of-mouth recommendation; 2) practical jokers who leave messages for their friends to call his number. Even the latter sometimes get so interested that when the operator asks for another nickel, they put it in. For those others who get mad and tell him to go to the devil, Pastor Hall has a ready reply: "I can't go with you, I'm going the other...
Parse Parisius was reared on a Wisconsin farm, taught in Northwestern (Wis.) College, was a Lutheran pastor in Rice Lake, Wis., directed Farm Security work in Wisconsin, before becoming assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He got to be associate director of Agricultural War Relations last June, when Claude Wickard set up the ineffectual Food Requirements Committee...
...pastor in a Salem, Ore. church announced just before the sermon that a car had been left outside with its motor running. "Here is an opportunity for the owner to demonstrate his patriotism and conserve gasoline," he observed pleasantly, and read the license number. Governor Charles Arthur Sprague hustled out and turned off his motor...