Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-11
ILLNESS FORCES
DR.. BURDETTETO
GIVE UP PULPIT
TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION TO
DEACONS
PORTLAND PASTOR PROBABLY TO
BE CALLED TO CHURCH
knowledge That He Cannot Resume
Work for Many Months ImPeIs
Popular Preacher to
Take Step

Rev. Robert J. Burdette rendered his
resignation to the deacons of Temple
Baptist church yesterday. DR.. Bur-
dette sent a tentative resignation TO
the deacons OF his church several weeks
ago, but as his note at that time was
not decisive the church officials had
taken no action on it and nothing was
done aside from informal discussion of
the possible loss of the services of the
popular minister to the great church he
has built up in Los Angeles.
Yesterday Deacon Richard Green paid
a visit to Eventide, the Burdettes sum
mer home at Clifton-b -by-the-Sea. He
carried with him, on request of DR..
Burdette, the former tentative resig-
nation, and the pastor wrote another
resignation showing his determination
to discontinue his active services at
the church. DIR. Burdette requested
that the resignation be presented for
mally at tonight's prayer meeting, and
Deacon Green will comply with the re-
quest, DR.. Burdette asked that he be
retained as pastor emeritus, and prob
ably will fill the pulpit on special occa-
sions. DR.. Burdette's conclusion to re-
sign and temporarily retire from active
life was brought by the decision of the
consulting physicians, who have been
in attendance at the minister's bedside,
that probably several months would
could with safety re-enter the pulpit,
May Get Portland Pastor
1t is believed thax DIR. J. Whltcomb
Brewer of Portland, Ore, will be called
to fill the pulpit vacated by DR.. Bur-
dette. Dr. Brewer was for six years
pastor of the White Temple of that city
where he was extremely successful. He
filed the pulpit at the Temple aud
torium during the summer of 1908 In
DIR. Burdette's absence and during that
time endeared himself to the Los An
geles congregation.
During the nopthern Baptist conven-
ton at Portland, which met June 22 to
30 DIR. Brewer was highly commended
for his executive ability and general
efficiency as a pastor. He is a man
about 35 years old, active and has
strong personal magnetism and sur
rounds himself by men who are work
ers and who build up organizations Of
great strength to do good in COM
munity.
DR.. Brewer is described as a man Of
the broadest tolerance and one who
wins the love and respect of members
of other denominations and of no de-
nominations. He is said to have little
patience with impatience and overzeal-
BUSINESS on the part Of assistants likely
to go out of their way to attack other
religions or other peneIS.
Constructive and Tolerant
He is constructive, rather than de-
structiye, and believes that 1t is better
to have the friendship of all denomina-
tions and beliefs than to attack and
repel them. DR.. Bowers strong hold
has been to win friends in every direc-
tion. While he has been in the van
a,1ard of the strictly UNCONVENTIONAL
workers in his church he has been uni
formIy tolerant and broad guage,"
and Is known to be man of broad
sympathies and kindly impulses. He
has shown more of a disposition to
lead the erring brother into the paths
of rectitude than to whip him into the
ranks of orthodoxy with the lash of in
tolerance and invective.
In his management of the White
Temple he has repeatedly shown his
broadness, but members of his congre-
cation say that never once have the
walls of that historic institution re-
echoed the words of intolerance of an
other religious belief
Those who know DIR. Brewer best in
Los Angeles say that he has in his
temperament much of the sweetness
and gentleness of DR.. Burdette and,
like the famous sage of Sunnycrest,
has ever kindly word for everyone in
the whole world Like DR.. Burdette,
he is strong in his belief but tolerant
of belief of others.
DR.. Burdette Hurt by Fall
The news of the resignation of DR..
Burdette will bring sorrow into the
hearts OF more than 1000 members of