Religion: Two Months with Pay

The Bible records that when St. Paul got his call to "come over into Macedonia and help us," he set out "immediately." Nowadays, preachers are apt to be more wary. Here are some of the points St. Paul would have raised, says the Rural Church Department of Drew Theological Seminary (Methodist), if he had been like a lot of his 20th Century successors:

"First of all I should like to know whether Macedonia is a circuit or a station . . . If Macedonia embraces more than one preaching place, I may as well tell you frankly that I cannot consider the...

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