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...last twelve years, the Rev. Charles Miles Jones, 46, has been pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church. He is one of the most popular pastors the church has ever had. His short, conversational sermons on basic ethical problems attract such large crowds that an extra service has had to be added to the church's Sunday schedule. He has even built up a following among University of North Carolina undergraduates...
Only the Bulletin Board. As churchmen, Pastor Jones's fellow Southern Presbyterians cannot quarrel with his views against race segregation, for the church has abolished its last segregated Negro synod-fulfilling the letter as well as the spirit of the law. But a few members of the congregation protested that Pastor Jones was too intent on social reform and racial brotherhood to tell them much about the doctrines of salvation. Complained one former church officer: "Except for the sign on the bulletin board in front, you'd never know it was a Presbyterian church...
Last April, 20 of the 220-member congregation asked the Orange County Presbytery, to set up a second Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill. Pastor Jones calmly agreed. "I fully realize," he said, "that my preaching isn't along the needs of many persons here." A ten-man board, set up by the alarmed presbytery, began to investigate the Chapel Hill church, with the power to remove both pastor and officers if necessary. Pastor Jones took a year's leave-doing social work in Tennessee with a philanthropic foundation. But he comes back to Chapel Hill to preach every...
...officers a vote of confidence. Said Journalism Professor Phillips Russell: "The report gives the impression (and this is said with due reverence) that if Jesus Christ were found occupying the pulpit here. He might be ousted on the ground that, although a Christian, He could not be called a Presbyterian...
Times have changed for the brick building at 207 East 30th Street. Manhattan, that was once the Adams Memorial Presbyterian Church. The stained-glass windows are bricked up, the pews are gone, and in place of the organ there is a glass-fronted control room which bristles with switches, plugs and dials. Instead of such rousing hymns as Onward! Christian Soldiers and Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus, the old building resounded this week to the throb of a popular-music combo. And near the spot where a vested minister once stood at sermon time, a perky blonde...