Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once again dismayed by a discussion of union between Protestant churches [May 26] in which the last item of consideration seems to be theology. Union for the sake of union itself, plus the fostering of an ephemeral dynamism that Dr. Blake senses, may have some validity, but do the beliefs of these individual churches mean nothing...
Better than a thousand sermons was your coverage of Blake's proposal to unite four major Protestant denominations. The average layman says: "Why not?" The clergy question: "When?" And our Blessed Lord prays, ". . . that they...
Overwhelmingly, the United Presbyterian General Assembly last week voted to support Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for uniting with the Episcopalians. Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). The ecumenical vibrations thus set in motion stirred a quick reaction in two denominations...
Lahore to Pasadena. At first he thought he might want to be a missionary, but a year of teaching at missionary-run Forman College in Lahore. India (now Pakistan), killed his enthusiasm for a missionary career. Returning home in 1929, Blake married Valina Gillespie and spent the first year of his seminary training studying theology at New College, Edinburgh, then went back to Princeton Seminary until his ordination...
...Minister Blake's first post was as assistant pastor of Manhattan's now demolished Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, where, even the sexton told him he "ought to shout more." He decided that he was "a better popularizer than a scholar," and should give up a hankering he had for seminary teaching. He got a call to Albany's First Presbyterian Church, went on five years later to the Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Calif., where he stayed for eleven years before the General Assembly elected him Stated Clerk...