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...benefits are invisible to the tax collector's eye. Informed churchgoers provide their ministers with sure-thing stock market tips; talented accountants in the congregation can help a pastor cut his tax liabilities; in rural districts the laity still follows the old frontier custom of helping out the preacher by stocking his larder with food from time to time. The once generous discounts offered clergymen by railroads and stores have been restricted, reduced or cut out. But on balance, says a lay official of the National Lutheran Council, "ministers never had it so good. If pastors had to settle...
...ordained a preacher in the Disciples of Christ at the age of 17, and, with the encouragement of one of his Bible College teachers, began to tour the Southwest, preaching at revival meetings. "He said I had promotional ability," Hargis says. "That's all evangelism is-promotional ability.'' Promotional ability earned Hargis four pastorates, but he soon gave up the ministry to work full time as a radio preacher...
...only five times this year, and the experts give him a chance to top even Cobb's record. Says Alston: "He's the greatest base stealer I've seen in the majors.'' Green Light for Go. The son of a Washington, D.C.. Baptist preacher. Wills spent nine years rattling around the Dodger farm system before the parent team brought him up to stay...
...AUTHORITY. Merriam's supporters argue that any presbytery must be wary of removing a preacher once he is called by his congregation, because the very nature of Presbyterianism stresses local control. His critics agree that a call from a church is rarely rescinded, but say that Merriam's unclerical behavior has forced the presby tery to take drastic action...
...that Adam might well be a symbolic term for all mankind rather than a specific human being. "This sort of rationalistic criticism." rumbled Houston Pastor K. Owen White, "can lead only to further confusion, unbelief, deterioration and ultimate disintegration of a great New Testament denomination." But not every Baptist preacher was happy about the resolutions. Dr. Wallace Bassett of Dallas warned that they would make Southern Baptist churches "the laughingstock of the Christian world...