Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Industrial Chaplain. Presbyterian Smith calls himself an "industrial chaplain." From the beginning, he and his wife have lived with and served their flock on the industrial front lines-going down into the mines, attending union meetings, helping conduct mine foremen's classes...
...Service Award. His church has recently promoted him to be a supervisor of mountaineer mining missions, and he has moved into Morgantown with two ordained assistants and a third on the way. Both owners and miners are so appreciative of Smith's work that they have asked the Presbyterian Board of National Missions to open nine more centers like the Shack...
...most cherished projects, the Miners' Memorial Pool to provide free summer swimming and winter skating for Scotts Run. Assembled for the dedication were representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the A.F.L., the C.I.O., the U.M.W, as well as a mine operator, an editor, a Catholic priest and a Presbyterian churchman...