Sizoo Pointed

Last Sunday a rugged-faced, bespectacled minister mounted a pulpit in Washington, said: "Twelve years ago God pointed me here. Today He points me elsewhere." The minister was Rev. Dr. Joseph Richard Sizoo, 51, announcing his departure from Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, called the "Church of the Presidents" because Chief Executives who happened to be Presbyterian found it convenient to worship there.

Six years ago Dr. Sizoo declined the pulpit and a $15,000 salary at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. Last week, yielding to entreaties and possibly feeling he had completed the job of vitalizing a once-stagnant Washington church, he accepted a call from another of Manhattan's rich, old land-owning Collegiate Churches--St. Nicholas on Fifth Avenue in the shadow of Rockefeller Center. Netherlands-born Dr. Sizoo (pronounced sighs-oh) will probably get the $18,000 salary of his predecessor Dr. Malcolm James Macleod.

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