Dr. Sockman's Press Conference (Retirement Announcement)

it's both ms bisbee is purely professional public relations manager used to promote the spaces side of that eagerness of my members to get me out of the church at the organized party us a very prominent advertising man in the group ir his friends bought them i i have nothing to say your knowledge with lessons but you know frankly the biggest sale mr steinmeyer here isn't like the bank is not going to the church and he asked the characters difficult for the court to do that has a far more facts about me the night we know

december last spring this time nothing said about my retirement but many people were asking questions herald tribune called yuck why the original mix dave i said well play farewell the papers i was going about it the last sunday of september won't suddenly of my sermon i shall about the forthcoming retirement which will take effect december thirty first churches very graciously raging so i want to continue

reason for this the timing is of this bike in new york as a student i joined this parish tradition of madison avenue and sixteenth street december first i think my eleven and that means fifty years ago so i decided fifty years was long really meant to stay in one place and i should use now correct that spark i'm deeply grateful as i should say on sunday to church for having ignored my youthful an experience i would just fall and began this past week and also my courage haspel inadequacy so i'm closing my ministry here with great feeling about it to two members of my parish

as for using cell service record there may be a few cases in american treats like the men who've served forty five years ago and that's why now in my forty fifth year that i think there are no other at first that's the thing is that i was only going to be in ever since watson off the record here at all i don't think any man minister should shake the thinking of a congregation forty years but in new york city the line minister does that stuff around the corner of your great voices of other churches by members of the year

not very readily unless they have so i don't consider that i'd been shaping their thinking of this church i think it's been there for some justification of mice day long so i wouldn't encourage other youngsters to stay this warm winter in the process of you know building the church that kept us with a certain challenge to fifteen years to face a church we have so altogether i feel that that explains why it wasn't the

president of yale died in nineteen forty seven new york university maybe the director of the whole thing that's a process which has been traditionally held by men would retire with other physicians john finley the new york times had it for why aren't you about two years in when he died we want talk about two years would he regard to eleven he died wednesday in july the left and the cardinals present about two years and he died so they thought they could get somebody less distinguished longevity what i should've done with it really hard to give my time to make up the money i've taken that government that this isn't the dodgers that's a i don't i don't have my office a little nine fifth avenue a house

given by mrs reagan was in my church and he died he left a big house a second car a second and fifth and her daughter has given the arc of everest the hall of fame the front rooms tonight and that will be my major work i do have is speaking i guess nineteen sixty five but lanier represents about guessing film commission yes it will continue at least for march this i shot an october to march a letter i presumably the end or are

used to play in that or the audiences that just about using reported this morning as you are probably know in december a formal national council of churches that were two there was a statement put out by bishop james fight doctor as eugene blake calling on the episcopalians presbyterian methodist and police was for four hundred years for us to unite and that's still alive issue it was years before workout yes i i think that would be right to say that it's about is of ordination raised by the most visible church is probably the biggest her to overcome anything

to brown that makes for church in a day i'd far from the political liberty and the other member of my church who you see me going to fix that well show the questions you were asked yes i should i think we have to be fair to announce it before mr stiller because i have said that i would not sunday morning you'd make available to riverside church that kicked are you still see the facts and the statement of items taken in their is about as good as i could have imagined i didn't write this of all i came back to find all this material

prepared i was devastated semi mystical part of it's doing it but that was like you to the facts are all here for one out a what i'll do since i think there are people who like the morning raising the fuel does leave a bike wants that for that reason this leave your name with the women on this hill i'll betcha that my plan is simply to report what instrument and then make a brief statement to the effect that i'm retiring right church pretty well knows about the publication and then the baby the church dinner on november seventh at the

wall or a particular would rather not say here is one line but express my gratitude to them and why am i want this occasion to make this clear to be what it really is not a tribute to any one man because it's a bigger than that i think it's a lot like to think this signifies is what a church can do at the heart of new york city in what is commonly considered to be the most difficult religious feeling in the world as you know the protestant churches are a very small minority in the city and the church's a bit going retreating all the time i have a lot of political april showing how we predict and that we like to think that christchurch has stayed here at the heart of the city and

touched the educational life is at new york university in the philanthropic life and civic life and i don't think anyone church shaver's life in new york city it's all very weak figure eight oh well i have a medical first to say but i do think we must keep firmly in our minds the separation of church and state i hate to see

any government either jewish or protestant be in position to four wives sotheby's the bitter political in our schools i i believe that the federal government does have to at education in certain places which were not all are in this country legally resources to carry our public schools in the right way and certainly education our knowledge is at the point where we must go head and help them with it oh i think we could do it without jeopardizing state but i it was together to really fight position started for our fallen for the atlantic

yes well what is it that's what you're getting is a water or you know a way of the idea was that if indeed a point in that committee's word on the wall or grizzlies and he's not your date i think just to stand there is work that you're on the air pollution they have several men under consideration and when the announcement mean i don't know that he has begun pulling strings together i think you guys are you

might say this is one of the problems in portraits like this but you want that is the fact that there's a scarcity on beaches for developments the seminaries i'll probably like the game that they still some of the top students for teaching job so you get a first rate mines are going to get a phd and then they become teachers the district's kids off another level or bishops in principle that leaves are kind of a scarcity man in the book and i finally got all the nomination to find something with a bottle of preventable not easy for a

whale i see your weirder compiled years as i have and i guess you could say so in a way hurt the methodist church doesn't give people a chance to say well it will only bishops they like them and so little bit sweet little bit subjective and say the situation is this is nineteen forty eight and the general conference the leader's vision about what your fiction north hours as the northeast jurisdiction fiction everything from west virginia to me i was almost like that on the first ballot no one's ever nominated for the fifth biggest biggest casting their ballots and then snow say it was in that church and i because i was in the midst of laying off my church to get out because of the radio good and his father said you can't be a bishop and keep up the radio because that labeled you

now they don't worry about the characters is not just up but you get the image of those say oh what abomination the irony of that is it on that basis i said i'd save the radio and when fulton sheen not to be a bishop companies about it were just a bishop which one this problem with him so why it did myself anyway a forty idea that would just be patient and in fifty two they came to be and maybe state before that carter just that we have like every four years when i think about the life issue with drew which anyone can laugh at the city winery boston guest got booked to give that was the situation so i guess the subject of a percent i didn't feel that i could have babies because your sermons on the radio afterglow your free agency and that comes out in your personal contacts even the subject jukebox republic

they have to live in terms of organization you can talk about church unity or things like there's a part of our human so i really think if it become revealed wide open is set for the radio i really feel it's that they were doing as you may know i have been on the radio forty five years as the senior minister of national review hope that's the oldest continuous that work program on the air on the way of amos n andy next data they bought it disappeared whatever let's start back in those about making twenty twenty i went on this this summer supply and when he died at thirty six i went on as the senior minister of the voters know he's going to go

it's b well it has been several years that's it we have a larger than the law requires because of the eight years of my drawer and i don't think

it's that i think gives the richness that you see we're facing in this world series oh such upset world that it just calls for the full world superhuman effort will be particularly good news and i feel in some new younger voice can come along and the public going to this church and i also they say it i will give you somewhat more and they wanted time to the word taxes like world peace sign up to be president or if you'd like to give some time to let love with the whole thing so i'm trying to be a lot in the city and keep on by october first is

my fortieth is rigorous ms wharton his appetite to your question the way a lot of people various portions of refugee things will be in the hall of fame and the tradition mr brown has resulted this inauguration of does what he wants to use or are they think you are or five sunday morning political reversed some of their neighbors the anniversary by joining as it is reversible

i was a late win in the church two years and i will say this that at that time i did a lovely the ministry i think i i think the church up to shake my views about that that i decide whether you somewhere in nineteen thirteen and at that time i went into the and the staff and i became sort of a student assistant during my seminary days most humans are that you know i got fifty hours a month i think it was for my duties and then there were two short pass christian church one man was eighty

year and we're nine months looking for a successor and when they finally got him he only stayed a year and a half and the official said this week that one on the market rather than the typical we've gotten used to me i got it by mistake on a right to say that i would just fall on the job when they call to make it and the bishop was heard to say that mr johnny has won five years to live in a house with his mother with a young boy who is now or at least he thought george was but is that on the west side of new york and you know a lot of them aside the treaty at three of our strongest her to the work of a ghost gone down so this i get the breaks that's all the city's come around breaks so i took my church as pastors to brown

on the first sunday of april nineteen seventeen just before the first world war was declared it was declared and thirty i think that depending on sunday because of a cent we get to short passes you can't win any war service i stayed right by well it's summer ymca work or the picture so i'd been there since the first sunday of april nineteen seventeen as fast as goldman's role i'm on my it was forty four years let a problem of forty fifth year i will have completed fifty years in the church forty for half years in the book i thought oh oh no

money this is that is that is that i think that some of the us economy about the clippers season and he is the liberty that might be in the other room and they were asking me about my mother that may come out now as important or citrusy on the other because i want a fair and everybody and the ice were not a sunday morning and i assume that anything over the radio comes out on sunday night that doesn't interfere with the with your part of the world that you know the fbi thank you

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