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...million Americans, and they are weary of the war," said a spokesman for the National Council of Churches. "But this weariness is reflected in such statements as, 'Let's get this war over with, even if it means major escalation.' " Said United Church of Christ Pastor William Bruce MacKenzie in Denver: "I haven't preached a sermon on Viet Nam for a long time. You get discouraged. You've said everything you had to say before, and things haven't changed...
Hangman's Noose. Opposition to clerical involvement takes many forms -some of them crude. When Methodist Pastor Eugene Lowry of Kansas City's College Heights Methodist Church urged his congregation to hire a Negro organist, his car was burned and he found a hangman's noose on his mail box. More frequently, though, opposition takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city...
Some churches make no secret of their desire to get rid of a civil-righteous pastor-and when congregational policy allows it, they sometimes do so. In the Boston suburb of Newton, the Rev. Frank Weiskel of the First Congregational Church was dismissed soon after he and a visiting Negro minister sang We Shall Overcome from the pulpit. Last February, the Rev. William Youngdahl of Omaha's Augustana Lutheran Church was forced to resign his charge after congregants protested his involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left...
...there will be two, one for Luci to throw and one for her to lay-at her request-at the foot of a statue of St. Agatha, a patron saint of nurses. Lady Bird Johnson, who was married on the day she gave her first unequivocal yes, by a pastor she had never met, with a $2.50 ring hastily bought at Sears, Roebuck, says a touch wistfully: "The wedding day will be something beautiful to remember, and I want Luci to have...
When he retired in 1962 as pastor of Manhattan's modish, 157-year-old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell found a fitting maxim for the occasion, a line from an old temperance song that admonished, "Have courage, my boy, to say no." It was high time, he said, for an old preacher to go dry fly-fishing in the streams of his native Prince Edward Island. Last week, at 73, Bonnell unexpectedly turned no into yes and accepted the presidency of Manhattan's little interdenominational New York Theological Seminary (enrollment: 180). For the occasion...