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The Life Of A Rural Minister
F humanity’s many unsung figures,
few have been less celebrated than ministers in small towns. ‘‘One Foot In Heaven,’’ the best-selling book by Hartzell Spence, which tells the story of his father, a country minister, is one of the exceptions. Book reviewers delighted in the warm comedy of the incidents . in Mr. Spence’s everyHartzell Spence, day life, applauded their the famous author of | humanness. One Foot In Heaven Warace ae fas translated “One Foot In Heaven’’ to the screen, with Fredric March as the minister and Martha Scott as his patient, hard-working helpmate. See the accompanying photos for some of the trials and tribulations in the life of a rural minister.
Neither rain, nor almost anything keeps this rural minister from his appointed round of church duties.
Paternal duties begin at home for the father of the flock.
(Left) Father carries the bride into her new homey a down-at-the-heels parsonage. And woe to the minister’s wife who casts off furniture donated by members of the flock!
Making friends with the license clerk is good business. The clerk steers marrying couples over to the minister, and wedding fees are very welcome.
Ministerial dignity is not above lending Mother a hand with the heavy family ironing. And in return Mother lends a listening ear to a rehearsal of next Sunday’s sermon.
Pitter patter of the rain on the roof is not a welcome sound to the minister’s family, for the parsonage is almost sure to have a leaky roof, as Frankie Thomas and Martha Scott find out in this scene from the film version of “One Foot In Heaven.”