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When a call came to Pastor Alexander, it was usually a mighty clear one and it got a clear answer. A few years ago, he decided to provide a new church for his flock; soon he was making plans for a $2,000,000 church and recreation center on a 40-acre plot on the outskirts of town. Another time he was called by Hollywood to act in the movies at $1,000 a week. He turned it down...
...bare little church, with its severe, varnished interior, its six plain glass windows, its 17 pews, was jammed, as always, with Americans and their children in their Sunday best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . . ." The minister laid down his Testament, and began his sermon...
Financial Statement. In Abilene, Texas, after four burglaries at his St. Paul Methodist Church, Pastor Earl Hamlett announced through the columns of the Reporter News: "We do not keep our collection money in the church safe . . . Pickings [there] are either very slim or nonexistent and never worth the trouble, regardless...
Baltimore's big (1,200 membership), Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church announced that it had selected a co-pastor who was not a Methodist and did not expect him to change from his present denomination, Disciples of Christ...
Said Methodist Pastor Albert E. Day in announcing the appointment of the Rev. Walter Fiscus of Eugene, Ore. as his co-pastor: "In these days when there is so much discussion of church union, there are steps in fellowship that may well be taken by individual churches, advances that may open larger ways of cooperation between representatives of various denominations before organic unity between denominations is reached . . . This is definitely the era of the ecumenical spirit . . . Why should the church ask for international cooperation and refuse interdenominational cooperation...