Prizeman

City preachers, when they get a holiday, are likely to go to the country and think about their lot. Last week a country preacher gave city preachers something else to think about. Preacher Thomas H. Rose set out with his wife for a junket in Boston, Atlantic City and New York, the last two of which neither he nor she had ever seen.

Preacher Rose's junket was the 1932 ''Distinguished Service Award for New England Pastors" given by the New England Fellowship, for purely spiritual services, to pastors earning less than $2,000 a year. Belfast born and London trained, wiry, ruddy, sharp-nosed Preacher Rose was called to the Congregational Church in small Vershire, Vt. four years ago. There was a Congregational Church at West Fairlee Centre and Preacher Rose soon took to preaching there also. Presently the parishioners of an abandoned Methodist Church at West Fairlee offered him its pulpit. He accepted. He even got the three Roman Catholic families in the district to send their children to his Sunday School. Preacher Rose makes the 28-mi. round of his three parishes in an old automobile, carrying in winter a shovel to dig his way. He calls regularly on all his 700 parishioners, preaches three times every Sunday. Says he: ''On the side roads, one has to walk in the winter time. . . . West Fairlee is a lovely village."

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