When a friend told her that she was cut out for the ministry, Methodist Margaret Henrichsen, 42 and newly widowed, laughed at the idea. But the thought took root. In a matter of weeks, Mrs. Henrichsen was submitting sample sermons to the district superintendent near her home in Melrose, Mass., and she was plugging away on a correspondence course for ordination. Then, eight years ago, she was offered a rural parish covering four townships around North Sullivan, Me., ten miles from Bar Harbor. Within a few days, she sold her home, sank the money in a '38 Oldsmobile and headed north....
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