Word: pastoralized
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...once interested enough in Buchmanism to speak twice at Oxford Group meetings. He now disclaims any interest in the Oxford Group, has never met Founder Frank Buchman. Truman jokes that he always seems to get back in the old parish "about the time they are raising money." But Pastor E. W. Bowman says the Senator is a generous contributor. Although last week's Christian Century called Truman "a religious man," the Senator confesses that he has "never been a very active churchgoer." Last Sunday he was fishing in Chesapeake Bay with Speaker Sam Rayburn. But his view of churches...
...idea was the brain child of the Rev. A. Ritchie Low, white pastor of the United Church, Johnson, Vt. Last fall the tense, energetic Congregational minister lived for several weeks with a Negro family in Manhattan. He wanted to find out what Negroes thought about white people. He also preached at Manhattan's big (14,000 members) Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose Pastor A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell was enthusiastic about the Negro children's visit to Vermont. So were Pastor Low's white parishioners...
...Said Pastor Low: "To take white youngsters off the city streets is ordinary, but to accept Negro youngsters in the home isn't done every day. . . . It's going to be a worth-while project for us church folk who are quite content to give money and to say prayers so long as neither bring these people too close or cause us too much personal effort...
Died. The Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, 77, internationally famed Baptist leader, onetime (1934-39) president of the Baptist World Alliance, for 47 years pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church; after long illness; in Dallas...
Hell-Fire. The overzealous chaplain was Kentucky-born Laurel Garnett Gatlin, 44. In the four Southern pastorates he has held, Preacher Gatlin has pounded out straight hellfire & damnation. After each service he would make a last-minute appeal to any sinner not to leave church without embracing the Lord Jesus and being saved. To Preacher Gatlin the Navy seemed like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because...