Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after 44-year-old Presbyterian McNeill had finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...
...Columbus went up in emotional flames over his dismissal. Pastor McNeill began to feel the strain. "Some folks have got me on a spit," he said. "They're working me over on the air, every hour on the hour." Last week, while bowling with two of his three children, Pastor McNeill collapsed with a heart attack...
Sensation of the convention was a speech by a Southern Baptist. Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, whose topic was the sorest subject in Northern Baptism -the "invasion" by Southern Baptists (membership: 8,956,756) of what the American Baptists (membership: 1,536,276) regard as their territory. The convention press was kept busy running off 3,000 copies of his speech, which sold at 10? each...
...Pastor Smith views the resulting friction as threatening "the unity of Baptists on this continent more seriously than the Civil War." And he blames the cold uncharity of Northern Baptists for the situation in the first place. The 800,000-odd Southern Baptists who have moved north, he said, have not felt that they were wanted in the churches where they have gone. "They are simple people to whom forms and ceremonies are as strange as a foreign tongue, but they love the Lord. Have you been willing to gather with them in their home or perhaps in a crude...
...Reformed and Presbyterian churches, representing 45 million Protestants who acknowledge Calvin as their spiritual father. Dutch Reformed mingled with Hungarian Calvinist; delegates from churches in Poland, Rumania, Australia and Madagascar exchanged greetings with delegates from the U.S. and from the Church of Scotland. Said Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church: "The Reformist and Presbyterian churches are still the most international of the Protestant groups...