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...rainy night in 1941, a young Presbyterian minister and his dark-haired bride arrived at their first parish. Scotts Run, near Morgantown, West Va., was a drab example of a drab species-the coalmining community. In its unpainted houses set among barren yards lived 5,000 mine folk. But Scotts Run was just where the Reverend Richard Charles Smith wanted to live...
...Standard Oil tax specialist and educated at Michigan's Hope College and Princeton Theological Seminary, thin-faced Pastor Smith had planned to work among miners. When the Presbyterian Board of National Missions offered him the Scotts Run post, he jumped at it. He took up residence in the "Shack," a long, narrow, white and green building sandwiched between the railroad tracks and State Highway...
...little Japanese Presbyterian with a broad smile and bad eyesight toured the U.S. in 1936, speaking to packed halls on Christianity and consumer cooperatives. For the hundreds of thousands who heard him, Toyohiko Kagawa sounded like a saintly social worker and symbolized the best of Christianized Nippon...
Roman Catholic aloofness toward the church unity movement, predicted Manning, "may change, as many members of that communion hope and believe it will." Manning himself was as aloof as ever toward the often-proposed merger of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. Said he: "If the Episcopal Church were to abandon or compromise its catholic belief as to the church and the apostolic ministry ... to unite with one among the Protestant churches, this would not be a step toward Christian reunion but a step directly away from it. They who urge such action are not thinking of reunion in world-wide...
CHARLES K. IMBRIE, D.D. First Presbyterian Church...