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Show A Liberal Religion: 1942-1960 preach sermons to the local congregation on Sunday mornings, including Waldemer P. Read, M. R. W. Leigh, Rabbi E. Louis Cardon, Preston D. the local community invited were to Richards, David R. Trevithick, H. Grant Ivins, Leonard H. Kirkpatrick, and James L. Jarrett. congregational meeting in January 1950, which was conducted by Sidney E. Gilchrist, Dr. Harold Scott was called to be the minister. Harold Scott, who had already been a minister for thirty-six years, had previously served in churches in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Camp Hill, Alabama, Denver and Ft. Collins, Colorado, Flint, Michigan, and At the annual Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Alabama, in 1931 and 1932, and his Th.M. and Th.D. in New Testament studies from the Iliff Graduate School of Theology at Dr. Scott tells how his graduate study It in 1 935 and 1 938. Denver, Colorado, ideas new opened up to him during of the New Testament: though the centuries were turned back and I was witnessing first hand the dramas of the times of the gospels and the early church. There was no question in what I would specialize. This was as unknown field of New Testament seemed what I hunting for all my life. Books and books and books in the field and I had not known they existed. I burned with desire to me new had been to equip myself to tell the world these new exciting facts about the origin and development of the Christian religion. Why were not all preachers Well, later I sadly learned that telling the people? most church don't a hoot in hell about the people give origin, ... development, a pious God. it is and validity of their religion. smirk that it If pressed they say with from the Bible and the Bible came from great love and reverence for the Bible but came People profess a mostly pious hypocrisy. 14 . .. 1'1 Ms Harold Scott, "Excuse Me, Parson," 175-76, unpublished 508, Bx 43, Fd 8. autobiography ' located in 123 |
