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This was the place and these the people among whom Pastor Eugene Smathers came in 1934 to live and work and serve...
...foreman. Said a grizzled Big Lick farmer last week: "That feller did it all. I seen him a-standin' out there in the sun, day after day, takin' holt of the building." By the time the church was built, the people of Big Lick and their pastor had built more than a church. They had welded themselves into a Christian community...
Since then, Big Lick, and Pastor Smathers have built other things: a small health center which now houses a resident nurse, study clubs to plan and carry out better farming techniques, a cooperative homestead plan to encourage young couples to stay in Big Lick. The state college and TVA have selected Big Lick as a demonstration area to dramatize soil conservation...
...report to the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen on his mission in the Cumberlands, Pastor Smathers once wrote: "My vocation is practical action rather than philosophical reasoning." But that same report showed that "practical action" is only the outward and visible sign of his ministry. Said...
Preacher-Editor. Dr. Morrison is a fighting editor of the old school who has made the Christian Century the most vigorous and intelligent Protestant weekly in the U.S. Pastor Morrison (of the Disciples of Christ) became Journalist Morrison when he bought the Christian Century in 1908 and made it interdenominational. The Century's "editorial we" has stood for Morrison ever since. Says he of his job and his magazine: "As an editor I am still a preacher. It is a journal of opinion, not news...