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Appointed pastor of Ile de la Tortue in 1947, Father Riou saw that the island's 12,000 inhabitants, living six miles from the mainland, had not even the barest medical facilities. On arrival he came across a peasant woman who, having given birth to twins, was cutting the umbilical cords with a machete. Riou opened a crude dispensary and was immediately swamped. He built a room with 15 floor mats on which the sick could lie. After returning to France for a fourth year of medical school to complete the training he had received as an army medic...
...Choosers. In this scene Germaine is. of course, elegantly allowing herself to be seduced. But she has longer-range interests of a similar nature, and they involve another man. The situation invites triteness; he is the minister of the local church-a hulking, clumsy, God-obsessed man. But Pastor Guymer is no Reverend Davidson, and in the end it is not his suicide that closes the book. The unbending wrath of the Old Testament fills Guymer, and he calls down the vengeance of the God he loves upon the parishioners he despises. Germaine listens with a musician's delighted...
...rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh. When a patient is operated on and found fatally ravaged by cancer, doctors are often inclined to assure with a him (and perhaps his wife as well) their that he fatherthat he will recover. In the case of non-Christians, Pastor Brooks has no quarrel with his benevolent deceit: "There is no merit in trying to force a Christian death on non-Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat...
...Today, hellfire and brimstone revivalists are increasingly scarce, and though emotion-packed evangelism is still part of every Baptist sermon, more and more Baptist preachers are university-trained. They read the classics, study foreign languages, keep informed on science. Richmond's Theodore Adams quotes Kierkegaard in his sermons; Pastor Blake Smith of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas likes to quote Balzac, while New Orleans' J. D. Grey is likely to make his points with tags from poets and philosophers...
...tornado"), who killed a political foe by shooting him four times in the belly, was acquitted on "self-defense." H. L. Mencken's picture, done with his usual exaggerated gusto, was taken as real by many readers: "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent . . . Every Baptist pastor became a neighborhood Pope . . . Every pastor was a chartered libertine, free to bawl nonsense without challenge . . . What the poor whites heard from the outside world they heard from the lips of these pious ignoramuses...