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...last week, on the eve of his 72nd birthday, one of the top clergymen in the U.S., the Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, announced to his congregation his resignation from the pulpit of famed Christ Church, at Manhattan's 60th Street and Park Avenue, which is often called "a cathedral of Methodism...
...Octopus. One of his parishioners once said that Dr. Sockman "looks like Adolph Menjou and acts like John Wesley." The urbane six-footer, in his Homburg and pinstripe, and the warmly moving preacher who crowds his church with 1,500 people of a Sunday, are both a far cry from the farm boy in Mount Vernon, Ohio, whose first speaking experience was when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made...
Ralph Washington Sockman moved from his one-room country schoolhouse to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...
...time, the church's fault is not, as some would say, that she speaks too seldom. Rather, she speaks too often and on too many subjects." This was the unlikely counsel of outspoken Manhattan Methodist Ralph W. Sockman, minister since 1936 to a congregation now numbering some 500,000 on NBC's Radio Pulpit. "Churchmen," his sermon continued, "act as though they feel they have to pontificate on any problem and, having spoken, tend to assume that there is little more to be said. This is boorish behavior as well as bad theology. It leaves little alternative...
Under energetic President Henry Pitney Van Dusen, pioneer of the ecumenical movement, Union's topflight faculty includes Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr (vice president of the seminary) and John C. Bennett, Philologist James Muilenburg, such noted preachers as Methodist Dr. Ralph Sockman and Riverside Church's Dr. Robert James McCracken. But maintaining such a faculty, as well as housing a student body that includes more and more women and children (46% of Union's seminarians are married), is posing a problem...