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Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
Lately Revivalist Rider heard that Pastor Brown had shut himself in his house, jealous and impoverished. Sorry, Revivalist Rider made friendly overtures, but was rebuffed...
Last week a relative of Revivalist Rider died in Kansas City. He was called to attend the funeral. Now was his chance to overcome the jealousy of his predecessor, to do him a good turn! Revivalist Rider got in his automobile, drove to Pastor Brown's house and marched up to offer him the preaching of the Easter sermon...
...Pastor Brown seized his visitor and threw him out. Then he seized a revolver and fired at Revivalist Rider. He hit him in the back and, as he turned, in the left side...
...received the ugly brick house outright and that is one of the most valuable pieces in the whole estate. The reason for the favoritism toward Drew was found last week in the ancient records of the Wendel family. Its first president, Dr. John McClintock who died in 1870, was pastor at the Wendels' church and in his biography are two letters to Old J. D. Wendel. Each of eleven Wendels (the first in 1896) had $10,000 memorials established for them at Drew. And the only Wendel sister ever to marry (Rebecca Swope) was married by a Drew President. Originally...