![]() From his first editorial, dated June 3, 1950, he wrote, "It will cost something to walk slow in the parade of the ages, while excited men of time rush about confusing motion with progress. It was May 1950, when Tozer was elected editor of the Alliance Weekly magazine, now called, Alliance Life, the official publication of the C&MA. In 1950, Tozer received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Wheaton College. In observing contemporary Christian living, he felt that the church was on a dangerous course toward compromising with "worldly" concerns. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tozer also served as pastor for 30 years at Southside Alliance Church, in Chicago (1928 to 1959), and the final years of his life were spent as pastor of Avenue Road Church, in Toronto, Canada. His first pastorate was in a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia. This began 44 years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), a Protestant evangelical denomination 33 of those years were served as a pastor in a number of churches. In 1919, five years after his conversion, and without formal theological training, Tozer accepted an offer to pastor his first church. just call on God." Upon returning home, he climbed into the attic and heeded the preacher’s advice. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved. Hailing from a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. ![]()
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