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...Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1932. He is a tall, stoop-shouldered, humble man whose bushy, red eyebrows knot together behind his rimless glasses when he thinks hard...
Smathers' old friend Dr. Warren H. Wilson of the Presbyterian, U.S.A. Unit of Rural Church Work helped with the project. Big Lick's 50 families supplied labor. Smathers was the foreman. Said a grizzled Big Lick farmer last week: "That feller did it all. I seen him a-standin' out there in the sun, day after day, takin' holt of the building." By the time the church was built, the people of Big Lick and their pastor had built more than a church. They had welded themselves into a Christian community...
...college voted to move from Wake Forest (pop. 1,800), in the eastern part of the state, to Winston-Salem, the Camel capital. The lure: a free campus-probably "Reynolda," the 300-acre estate of Tobacco Heir (and Presbyterian) Zachary Smith Reynolds*-and $350,000 annual income. The college will keep its name and Baptist independence. The catch: North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus...
...Bishop finished his benison and then called for a hymn. Said he: "Let us sing 'Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might.'" That hymn might have been his motto in his battles with advocates of easy divorce, isolationists, opponents of pan-Christian unity, proponents of a Presbyterian-Episcopalian merger...
...recent Atlantic Monthly: the chief obstacle to Christian unity is not mere divergence of structure and administration among the churches, but the cleavage between those who believe in Christ's divinity and those who don't. Says neo-orthodox Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the current Presbyterian quarterly, Theology Today: "The problem of ecumenical Christianity in America is the problem of resolving what is true and false in both the Church and the sect idea of Christianity...