Religion: Soft Berth to Hard

To be called to a big city church, to have a good house and an automobile, to preach on Sunday to a well-washed, pleasant-smelling congregation—such is the ambition of many a U. S. pastor. He may hope that such a post may prove a stepping stone to a bishopric, a moderatorship or a place on an important committee. Noteworthy is a pastor who reverses the process, leaves a big church to minister to a poor small one.

That was precisely what Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley of Newton, Mass, was making ready to do last...

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