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Jack Eastham, outstanding on offense for the Lawyers, passed to Phil Potter and Dick Welch for the two Lawyer scores...
...life of Charles Francis Potter stands for religious liberalism carried about as far as it can go-if not farther. It also stands for a small but significant segment of U.S. religious history. Raised as a Fundamentalist and proceeding from the Baptist ministry through Unitarianism and Universalism to the founding of his own "new religion" of Humanism, Dr. Potter has managed to keep himself in & out of hot water and public print for a generation...
Unitarian, All Right. Charlie Potter's devout mother and factory-worker father put him into Baptist Sunday school in Marlboro, Mass. at the age of 18 months; at 2½ he was memorizing Bible passages. At three he was preaching over the back of a chair to his parents on Sunday afternoons. He always had "a good loud voice," and he thinks his voice got him his first pulpit. In his first year at Newton Theological Institution, Baptist Potter astonished the congregation at Dover, N.H. by preaching right through the racket of a Boston & Maine train passing by just...
Five years later, in his second parish at Mattapan, Mass., a visiting Unitarian pronounced his sermon the "best Unitarian sermon I ever heard!" Baptist Potter decided to find out what he really was. He marched into Unitarian headquarters on Boston's Beacon Street and preached the national secretary a sample sermon on Jesus. Yes, said the secretary, he was Unitarian all right...
...shot your portrait of the younger generation used a fast shutter. The image was clear, exact, and unblurred . . . JAMES T. POTTER St. Paul...