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Re: *Myles Young's Departure from the UPC*
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Originally Posted by Barb
I'm old...am I reading this correctly? Are you saying he is pastoring TRC and preaching as he does just to maintain "the family business?"
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Not one of my best statements. I really don't know. The point I wanted to make was that I have never heard of his integrity being questioned. I don't know him personally but have never heard anything bad about him.
I do think many younger men will, out of respect to their father or spiritual elders, not fully follow the path they would like to as it would be met with disapproval or disappointment at best and possibly estrangement at worst.
Some of these men will perhaps make some adjustments over time as they become their own men in leadership positions and those they were seeking to please pass on but others will follow others paths so long it becomes their own. I am thinking in particular of a very prominent UPC pastor I feel this is what happened with and another who did in mid life break away from his father's path ((and is suffering the slings and arrows for it). I will not be specific as to who I am talking about but it isn't very hard to figure out. The first is himself now reaching retirement age at the church he inherited from his father and the second recently left the UPC after being castigated for moving his blue blood old school historic UPC church in a large urban area in a liberal direction.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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