Emphasis Preaching Journal

The late Dr. Charles Gilkey was dean of the chapel at the University of Chicago some 40 years ago. One day in a sermon delivered in the chapel at Andover Newton Theological School he described a visit he once made to the Tuskeegee Institute to speak in the chapel there. During the service he noted a diminutive elderly man with white hair sitting in a front pew. "How wonderful," he thought to himself, "they let some of the farm workers from the vicinity attend services." After the service there was a reception for Dr. Gilkey.