Religion: What a Chaplain Learned

A onetime Army Air Forces chaplain, now. back in his pastorate, last week told his parishioners how a year in the Army had changed his thinking. Wrote the Rev. Jule Ayers, 33, in a letter to the 850 members of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.'s First Presbyterian Church:

"Having been .a chaplain in the Army to a unit composed of Catholics, Protestants and Jews, I have become more interested in the ties which unite men spiritually than in the influences which divide them. Thus, I am determined to be known in my community as a minister of God first, a Protestant second, and a Presbyterian...

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