""Praise The "". The Coast Guard gets many unusual calls in emergencies, and true to the tradition of their motto 'Always Ready'..men of the Coast Guard fulfill most requests. When the minister of a church in Twin Rivers, Wisconsin, was unable to preach his Sunday sermon, someone suggested calling the Coast Guard, and Seaman Barrett C. Benson answered the call and 'stood watch' in the pulpit. Coast Guardsman Benson was a Methodist minister with churches at Dalton and LaFayette, Georgia. Benson explains his unusual case of laying down the bible to pick up a "When America went into


""Praise The "". The Coast Guard gets many unusual calls in emergencies, and true to the tradition of their motto 'Always Ready'..men of the Coast Guard fulfill most requests. When the minister of a church in Twin Rivers, Wisconsin, was unable to preach his Sunday sermon, someone suggested calling the Coast Guard, and Seaman Barrett C. Benson answered the call and 'stood watch' in the pulpit. Coast Guardsman Benson was a Methodist minister with churches at Dalton and LaFayette, Georgia. Benson explains his unusual case of laying down the bible to pick up a "When America went into the war the fellows in my churches began to go in the armed forces. They were swell friends and I could see no reason why their pastor should stay at home and ask them to do something that he was unwilling himself, so here I am in the Coast Guard.".


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