Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manse of the Rev. Leslie A. Bechtel is modestly called the "Cottage." But Pastor Bechtel of the Presbyterian Kirk-in-the-Hills in suburban Bloomfield Hills, Mich, has three gardeners to take care of his 30 acres of grounds, including the nine-hole golf course and the badminton and tennis courts. The manse itself is furnished with such creature comforts as antique chairs valued at $1,000 each and a $10,000 Persian carpet. Under construction near by is a new church, modeled after Scotland's Melrose Abbey, that wilt have cost about $3½ million by the time...
...short, 66-year-old Pastor Bechtel enjoys what are probably the most lavish and luxurious Presbyterian surroundings in the world. This week, of his own free will, he turned his back on it all. and set out for a log cabin in the Wisconsin north woods, where he plans to spend the rest of his life...
Studying law at the University of Wisconsin, he got a job as janitor at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison. Its pastor was the Rev. George E. Hunt, a smoking and drinking, social-gospel liberal who was something new in young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life...
...Civil War split the Presbyterians* right along the Mason-Dixon Line. Last week the old Presbyterian wound showed new and unexpected signs of healing...
...little (pop. 260) Montreal, in North Carolina's thickly wooded Blue Ridge Mountains, 450 commissioners (delegates) of the 757,701-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) met for their annual general assembly. No. 1 item on the agenda: a plan for merger with the Northern Presbyterians (2,500,000 members) and the United Presbyterians (300,000 members). The proposal had been discussed since 1938 and opposition to the idea was strong; in 1948 the General Assembly had postponed consideration of it for five years...