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...minister who turned down the position of preacher to the University yesterday called the post one of the "most challenging in the country," and explained why he considered it so difficult...
Officially known as the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals, the post has lain open for three years. During this time visiting preachers and an acting minister, the Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, have filled the pulpit. It has been rumored that a new University preacher may be appointed by President Pusey sometime this spring...
Adding, however, that he had been "terribly attracted" by the offer, Ferris said he felt that the opportunities which it presented were tremendous, both in terms of the ministry to students and as a chance for the preacher to be part of the academic community...
...exodus was planned as carefully as a corporation hunts out a new plant site. Evangelist Dwain Evans, 29, preacher of the proposed church, and a committee of elders scouted six other communities before choosing Bay Shore, which has the advantage of being near Long Island's aircraft and electronics plants. Recently, a number of corporations sent representatives to Dallas to interview members of the new congregation about jobs; a number of Long Island school boards similarly solicited teachers. But faith more than fortune lies behind the exodus. "It is the will of God," says Evans, "that...
...nullified in practice by individual Catholic politicians, but Spanish Protestants were jubilant. "It's great news." said Bishop Santos Molina of the Spanish Episcopal Church. Added a Baptist preacher from Barcelona: "We can at last live and die openly in our faith...