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...finally I came across three pages which lifted my feeling of despair. TIME'S Religion department assures me that there is still reason to hope. Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...Calvinism cropping up in me, but I think we've already begun to lose the peace. In some places it's indifference. In others, like that Methodist church out in Michigan, they adopt the 20th Century version of crucifixion-getting rid of their pastor when he speaks the truth as he sees it [see below...
...Perhaps it would be wise if the new pastor first took some sort of oath. We suggest the following .. . . : "I, Pastor -, hereby swear to be intellectually and morally honest at all times except when by being so I might hurt the feelings of a first-rate citizen. I will be particularly careful to say nothing that will bring disgrace on the Pastoral Relations Committee, and glory and a future in the hinterlands on myself, as did my unfortunate predecessor, Pastor John Safran...
Last week Pastor Safran was assigned to a new post-in a rural community...
Floyd Stevens and Jim Galloway of the Pastoral Relations Committee of Marysville's Methodist Church came to break the news: the church's trustees had voted to ask the Methodist Conference for a new pastor. Said Pastor Safran of that interview: "I asked why, and Stevens answered: 'It was because of your address at the high school. It is out of place. . . .' I said, 'Is there anything else?' And Jim answered: 'Well, you haven't made enough calls. But do you remember the first Sunday School board meeting when I told...