er to Him 
Another friend, the Rev. 
Ralph M. Sharpe of Francis 
A s b u r y Methodist Church 
here, is a deer hunting pal. 
Every fall the two go up to 
Dr. Robertson’s cabin on Hay- 
back Mt. in the lovely Goshen 
Pass section of West Virginia. 
In the summer snakes are 
the quarry. Clearing off a 
grown-up field several sum- 
mers ago, the minister and 
a helper accounted for three 
rattlers, eight copperheads 
and eight non-deadly snakes. 
Now he has four or five head 
of cattle there, but he doesn’t 
make any money on them. It 
always happens that “every 
time I buy the price is up 
and every time I sell the 
price is down.” 
With two clerical friends, 
one from Dublin, the other 
from London, he toured 
England, Scotland, Ireland, 
France and the Isle of Man 
last summer. 
Another friend was pianist 
in a church at Ashland, Va., 
where he was student pastor 
while still at Duke Divinity 
School. She was “a beautiful 
blue-eyed blonde,” Eva Prid- 
dy, and he courted her six 
years and married her when 
he convinced her “sh 
couldn’t do any better.” 
Dr. Robertson entered th 
ministry through the influ 
ence of the minister of hisi 
home church in Craigsville 
Va., 22 miles west of Staun 
-.•■•A 
The Washington Post 
REV. JAMES L. ROBERTSON 
... pastor of Clarendon 
Methodist Church 
ton. The minister asked him 
to preach one Sunday, when 
he was 16. His father told 
him, “Go ahead, son, and try; 
it won’t hurt you.” So he 
preached on salvation and 
“made out all right.” 
Dr. Robertson got his A.B. 
from Randolph-Macon in 1932, 
working in a steel mill in 
Methodists 
Wm Elect 
3 Bishops 
Three new bishops of the 
Methodist Church, possibly 
four, will be elected here 
June 15-19 at the quadrennial 
session of the denomina 
tion’s Northeastern Jurisdic- 
tion Conference. The successor 
to Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam 
of Washington will also be 
named then. 
The Northeastern Jurisdic 
tion— one of six in the Unitedj 
States — takes in 12 EasternI 
states from Maine to West VirJ 
ginia, the District of Columbia 
and Puerto Rico. It has 7785 
churches and nearly 2 million 
members. 
The 314 delegates will repre 
sent 21 annual (regional) con 
ferences. 
Besides Bishop Oxnam, twc 
other bishops, W. Earl Ledder 
of Syracuse, N. Y., and Freder 
ick B. Newell of New Yorl^ 
City are retiring. A fourth va 
cancy will be created if the 
Conference votes to make 
West Virginia a separate epis 
copal area, as expected. 
The new area is recomi 
mended in the report of 
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NCE CHURCHES 
G ROOMS IN 
ASHINGTON 
|hurch. The First Church of 
loston, Massachusetts 
l-SERMON, JUNE 12 
lERVER OF MAN 
Jy grace are ye saved through 
ks; it is the gift of God. 
iCHES 
Virginia 
ALEXANDRIA — First Church 
1709 Russell Road 
ARLINGTON— First Church 
6843 Little Falls Road 
ARLINGTON — Second Church 
3101 Arlington Blvd. 
at North Highland St. 
FAIRFAX — First Church 
Rt. 237 Nr. Layton Hall Schl. 
MT. VERNON— Society 
Hollin Hills Schl., Alex. 
Maryland 
CHEVY CHASE — First Church 
7901 Connecticut Avenue 
HYATTSVILLE— -First Church 
6221 43rd Ave. 
SILVER SPRING— First Church 
Georgia Ave. & Highland Dr. 
SERVICES 
Inday School at 11; First Church, 
(xandria; First Church, Hyattsville 
srvices and Sunday School also at 
First Church in Washington at 8, 
p.m. Wednesday evening meet- 
healing, First Church, Arlington; 
lurch, Hyattsville, at 8:15. 
ROOMS 
VIRGINIA 
Alexandria — 1 10 N. St. Asaph St. 
Falls Church — 123 N. Little 
Falls St. 
Arlington — 3150 Wilson Blvd., 
Room 200. 
Fairfax — Town Library Bldg. 
MARYLAND 
Chevy Chase — 7901 Conn. Ave. 
Hyattsville — 4333 Gallatin St. 
Silver Spring— -8484 Fenton St. 
|nd the Services, and to Visit the 
\hA and WASH-FM, 9:15 A.M., 
|:45 A.M.; Fri., WRC, 6 A.M. 
1., WRC-TV. 9 15 A.M. 
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