Words & Works

P: The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the right of a preacher in his pulpit to criticize a judge on his bench. It unanimously reversed the conviction of Pastor Ross Allen Weston of the Arlington Unitarian Church for contempt of court after he had preached a sermon accusing a judge of using his office, for political purposes.

P: Before the 140th annual meeting of the North Carolina Presbyterian synod, the Rev. Benjamin F. Hall of Wilmington complained of so many special financial drives in the church today, that "I find there are only three Sundays in the year that I can preach the Gospel of Christ." The synod unanimously passed his resolution that "the absolute dedication of life and possessions to the Lord Jesus Christ . . . must underlie any Biblical system of church financing."

P: The Rev. Dr. William Ward Ayer, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, warned Protestants against the spell of "individualistic" evangelists. "Biblically orthodox leaders have espoused a loose individualism in which order and decorum in church life have been forsaken, and have allowed appeals by religious 'glamour boys' to capture the imagination of the religious multitude, and millions of dollars have been poured into causes that have little effect upon the advancement of organized Christianity. These . . . unanchored movements, while undoubtedly helpful at times, may easily become the instrument that will disintegrate our organized Protestant church life."

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