The San Antonio Express
Editorial Page
Thurs. Oct. 24, 1940
Pierre B. Hill: Friend to the Weak and the Strong
Long Ago, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a pattern for the good life which tells why this community tonight will honor the Rev. Pierre Bernard Hill with a "Bouquet Banquet"--marking his retirement from almost 20 years' ministering to San Antonio's First Presbyterian congregation:
"Whenever we love, we serve; whenever we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable; no man is useless who has a friend."
That is the measure of Dr. Hill's usefulness to this city--and to all Texas and much of the Southwest, besides--and of the regard and affection in which its people hold him. It is an overflowing measure, indeed. Looking back over his ministerial career for a generation past--since the time as a theological student, he took the Word to Virginia mountaineers and coal miners--and thinking of the places he has been, and the things he has seen, the decent deeds he has done over much of the world, one might recall the self-characterization which Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
"To the weak became I as weak that I may gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some..."
Yet after all, there is no parallel: This Christian minister has been strong with the weak--a pillar of strength to them. He has brought strength and hope and courage to the erring, the desperate, the fallen--women and men, and young people alike--because he is, and always has been, the very contratype of Cooke's hypocrite who, "asking not of their ills and hurts," judges "they're getting their just desserts". He speaks the language of the lowly, suffering, underprivileged, almost friendless humankind. He has saved women from suicide and held back men from felony. Pastor, educator, missionary in Korea, Texas Ranger, intimate of sheriffs, old trail drivers, Border patrolmen, State police--understanding friend to the weak and the strong--that is Hill.
This great-hearted San Antonian is going out among the boys and girls in Texas and other States' colleges and schools as a spiritual counselor, a practical guide to the business of life--and a friend. At 63, he still is not wearying in well-doing. San Antonio hails Pierre Hill--and thanks him--and wishes him all happiness and abundant success in his continued response to the highest call upon humankind: usefulness.
His parents were Robert Hill Jr.
and Evelyn Guy Bernard Hill
Editorial Page
Thurs. Oct. 24, 1940
Pierre B. Hill: Friend to the Weak and the Strong
Long Ago, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a pattern for the good life which tells why this community tonight will honor the Rev. Pierre Bernard Hill with a "Bouquet Banquet"--marking his retirement from almost 20 years' ministering to San Antonio's First Presbyterian congregation:
"Whenever we love, we serve; whenever we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable; no man is useless who has a friend."
That is the measure of Dr. Hill's usefulness to this city--and to all Texas and much of the Southwest, besides--and of the regard and affection in which its people hold him. It is an overflowing measure, indeed. Looking back over his ministerial career for a generation past--since the time as a theological student, he took the Word to Virginia mountaineers and coal miners--and thinking of the places he has been, and the things he has seen, the decent deeds he has done over much of the world, one might recall the self-characterization which Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
"To the weak became I as weak that I may gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some..."
Yet after all, there is no parallel: This Christian minister has been strong with the weak--a pillar of strength to them. He has brought strength and hope and courage to the erring, the desperate, the fallen--women and men, and young people alike--because he is, and always has been, the very contratype of Cooke's hypocrite who, "asking not of their ills and hurts," judges "they're getting their just desserts". He speaks the language of the lowly, suffering, underprivileged, almost friendless humankind. He has saved women from suicide and held back men from felony. Pastor, educator, missionary in Korea, Texas Ranger, intimate of sheriffs, old trail drivers, Border patrolmen, State police--understanding friend to the weak and the strong--that is Hill.
This great-hearted San Antonian is going out among the boys and girls in Texas and other States' colleges and schools as a spiritual counselor, a practical guide to the business of life--and a friend. At 63, he still is not wearying in well-doing. San Antonio hails Pierre Hill--and thanks him--and wishes him all happiness and abundant success in his continued response to the highest call upon humankind: usefulness.
His parents were Robert Hill Jr.
and Evelyn Guy Bernard Hill
The San Antonio Express
Editorial Page
Thurs. Oct. 24, 1940
Pierre B. Hill: Friend to the Weak and the Strong
Long Ago, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a pattern for the good life which tells why this community tonight will honor the Rev. Pierre Bernard Hill with a "Bouquet Banquet"--marking his retirement from almost 20 years' ministering to San Antonio's First Presbyterian congregation:
"Whenever we love, we serve; whenever we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable; no man is useless who has a friend."
That is the measure of Dr. Hill's usefulness to this city--and to all Texas and much of the Southwest, besides--and of the regard and affection in which its people hold him. It is an overflowing measure, indeed. Looking back over his ministerial career for a generation past--since the time as a theological student, he took the Word to Virginia mountaineers and coal miners--and thinking of the places he has been, and the things he has seen, the decent deeds he has done over much of the world, one might recall the self-characterization which Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
"To the weak became I as weak that I may gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some..."
Yet after all, there is no parallel: This Christian minister has been strong with the weak--a pillar of strength to them. He has brought strength and hope and courage to the erring, the desperate, the fallen--women and men, and young people alike--because he is, and always has been, the very contratype of Cooke's hypocrite who, "asking not of their ills and hurts," judges "they're getting their just desserts". He speaks the language of the lowly, suffering, underprivileged, almost friendless humankind. He has saved women from suicide and held back men from felony. Pastor, educator, missionary in Korea, Texas Ranger, intimate of sheriffs, old trail drivers, Border patrolmen, State police--understanding friend to the weak and the strong--that is Hill.
This great-hearted San Antonian is going out among the boys and girls in Texas and other States' colleges and schools as a spiritual counselor, a practical guide to the business of life--and a friend. At 63, he still is not wearying in well-doing. San Antonio hails Pierre Hill--and thanks him--and wishes him all happiness and abundant success in his continued response to the highest call upon humankind: usefulness.
His parents were Robert Hill Jr.
and Evelyn Guy Bernard Hill
Editorial Page
Thurs. Oct. 24, 1940
Pierre B. Hill: Friend to the Weak and the Strong
Long Ago, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a pattern for the good life which tells why this community tonight will honor the Rev. Pierre Bernard Hill with a "Bouquet Banquet"--marking his retirement from almost 20 years' ministering to San Antonio's First Presbyterian congregation:
"Whenever we love, we serve; whenever we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable; no man is useless who has a friend."
That is the measure of Dr. Hill's usefulness to this city--and to all Texas and much of the Southwest, besides--and of the regard and affection in which its people hold him. It is an overflowing measure, indeed. Looking back over his ministerial career for a generation past--since the time as a theological student, he took the Word to Virginia mountaineers and coal miners--and thinking of the places he has been, and the things he has seen, the decent deeds he has done over much of the world, one might recall the self-characterization which Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
"To the weak became I as weak that I may gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some..."
Yet after all, there is no parallel: This Christian minister has been strong with the weak--a pillar of strength to them. He has brought strength and hope and courage to the erring, the desperate, the fallen--women and men, and young people alike--because he is, and always has been, the very contratype of Cooke's hypocrite who, "asking not of their ills and hurts," judges "they're getting their just desserts". He speaks the language of the lowly, suffering, underprivileged, almost friendless humankind. He has saved women from suicide and held back men from felony. Pastor, educator, missionary in Korea, Texas Ranger, intimate of sheriffs, old trail drivers, Border patrolmen, State police--understanding friend to the weak and the strong--that is Hill.
This great-hearted San Antonian is going out among the boys and girls in Texas and other States' colleges and schools as a spiritual counselor, a practical guide to the business of life--and a friend. At 63, he still is not wearying in well-doing. San Antonio hails Pierre Hill--and thanks him--and wishes him all happiness and abundant success in his continued response to the highest call upon humankind: usefulness.
His parents were Robert Hill Jr.
and Evelyn Guy Bernard Hill
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