NEED FOR REAL MEN IN MINISTRY TODAY

"No men can be found today more profoundly human and more intelligently interested in everything going on in the world than those in the ministry", said the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D. in speaking on "The Ministry as a Vocation" last night in Phillips Brooks House. Dr. Fosdick gave a general outline of the work in store for those who intend to become ministers, both from the standpoint of a professor at the Union Theological Seminary of New York and from that of a minister of the First Presbyterian Church of that city.

"While the minister is the most mercilessly caricaturized person on earth, he is no longer the variety that he is made out to be by the moving pictures and the stage--he is a real man.

"At present there is a pressing need throughout the country for men with culture, breeding, and intellectual training. Churches all over the country are willing to pay a living wage, and more too, to get the right kind of men". Dr. Fosdick also pointed out that the minister of the future would be "up and coming" and would be on a par with men in the other professions.

"One change that is becoming more apparant", he declared, "is that the denominational lines are fast breaking. It is perfectly possible today for a man to go into the ministry without being sure of his denomination".

Dr. Fosdick also pointed out that there was an increasing interchange between denominations. The policy of not building denominational churches, but rather community churches which represent the spiritual life of the community, is now in increasing vogue.