Atlanta Daily World

Gammon Speaker Calls For Worldwide Unity

"If we are ever to have one world, the Negro pastor will have to lead his community in preparing for it," said Dr. Ralph A. Felton of Drew University, addressing the closing session of the summer school for Rural and City Pastors at Gammon Theological Seminary.

Speaking on the subject "One Church - One World," Dr. Felton said that the church can do much to bring unity to our divided world, but if it is to succeed, all churchmen will have to work hard at it.

Pastors from nine states and seven denominations attended the two-week session. Dr. Harry V. Richardson, president of the seminary, who taught a course in the school, said that, this session was one of the finest in the long history of the summer school. "It is steadily growing in its national scope and influence. Ministers come from the mid-West and East as well as from the South," he said.

Dr. Felton, director of the school has worked in Christian causes all over the world. He has directed agricultural mission projects on four continents, and has taught in universities in the Orient, the Near East, Africa, and Mexico. He has directed the Gammon Summer School for the past six years. He is one of the best informed persons today on the world mission of the church.

Among the many visiting lecturers of the session was Rev. C. G. Ong, pastor of the Kaville Methodist Church in Singapore. Coming into the Christian ministry from a successful business career, Mr. Ong is one of the outstanding leaders of the Far East.

Teaching on the faculty with Dr. Felton were President H. V. Richardson; Dr. Luther A. Powell, of Storm Lake, Iowa; Professors Ellis H. Richards, Ralph L. Williamson, and M. J. Wynn of the Gammon faculty.

The courses included, "The Art of Managing a Church," "Financing Your Church." "Current Trends in Theological Thinking." "The Church and Its Community." "Problems of the City Pastorate," and "Techniques of Ministerial Leadership."

At the close of the session, six persons received awards "in recognition of their outstanding ministries." They were: Rev. A. J. Atkinson of Tallahassee, Fla.; Rev. J. H Bridges of Birmingham, Ala.; Rev Uzza D. Chambers of Baltimore, Md.; Rev. H. J. Hawkins of Evergreen, Ala.; Rev. Thomas A. Huger of Lakeland, Fla.; and Rev. Merrill E. Nelson of Cleveland, Ohio.

Returning to large city pulpits smaller towns and scattered rural parishes across the nation, the summer session students took with them suggested courses of reading and study that will enrich their ministries throughout the year.