Religion: To the Woods

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Colonel Edwin S. George, a rich, nonchurchgoing Presbyterian businessman (real estate) with heart trouble, already had the plans drawn up for the church he wanted to build on his estate. Bechtel agreed to become the first pastor of the Kirk-in-the-Hills.

Preacher Wanted. After six years, the congregation (712 members) is sorry to see Leslie Bechtel go. But as he and his wife set out this week for the Wisconsin woods, Pastor Bechtel looked forward to getting away from the things that money will buy. "Talk about trouble," he recently told a friend. "I never knew people could have so much trouble until I came here. Suicides, family separations, juvenile delinquency—it's enough to wear a man out . . .

"This is a wealthy neighborhood, but these people here don't have any domestic or financial security at all ... On Sunday the parking lot is filled with Cadillacs that these people can't afford. There is so much emphasis on material wealth."

Reluctantly, Kirk-in-the-Hills is looking for a new preacher.