Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Southern states goes in for robed minister and choirs, stained-glass windows, sermons on theology and the life of Jesus rather than hellfire and repentance; a few even have acolytes. To some Southern Methodists, it is high time to make a stand against this creeping formalism. Said the Rev. Pierce Harris of Atlanta's First Methodist Church last week: "If this keeps up, it will soon be difficult to tell Methodists from Episcopalians...
...REV.) T. R. BAUDLER Secretary...
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Part four of The Sand Pile is a proper companion for the preceding program: a look at the religious attitudes of contemporary youth. Special guest: The Rev. William Hamilton...
...REV.) EDWARD A. PUFF...
Died. The Rev. George Bolton, 59, British-born pastor (1942-59) of the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission, a onetime gambler who wandered aimlessly from city to city, was picked up by a pastor in a Bowery basement where he had gone to sleep; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society...