Refreshed, reanimated and refurbished, 72 Southern country preachers last week went back home to work. For 16 days, at a unique new school at Emory (Ga.) Uni versity, they had mopped their brows in the clinging heat and studied agricultural problems, learned about agencies serving the rural South, got tips on church work.
The "School for Town and Country Ministers" was the twin brainchild of Dean Henry Burton Trimble of Emory's Candler School of Theology, and of the school's Field Work Director Emmett S.
Johnson. Fearful that steady migration to cities might doom the rural church, they decided that ministers could make country...
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