Word: mackays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...165th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) met in Minneapolis last week and as its first order of business elected a new moderator: the Rev. Dr. John Alexander Mackay, 64, president since 1936 of Princeton Theological Seminary...
...they raised $79,000 by public subscription to build a Russell Museum in Great Falls. Last week, as the climax of another public fund drive, the Montana Historical Society took title to a private collection of Russell paintings valued at $300,000. The estate of Rancher-Broker Malcolm Sutherland Mackay agreed to take $50,000 for the collection, after a drive was launched to keep it in the state. Its destination: the new Russell gallery in Helena's Veterans and Pioneer Memorial Building...
...Spain is a clerical state which maintains a Protestant ghetto." Mackay, who studied in Madrid in 1915-16 and speaks Spanish fluently, found Spain "worse than I had imagined . . . The peace that prevailed was the peace of the sepulchre." More than at any time since the 16th Century, there is "that terrible concept of Spanish unity . . . which equates Spanish nationality with adhesion to the Roman Catholic Church and makes the state the tool of the church's will." Spain's 20,000 Protestants are virtually isolated from normal life: according to Mackay, they may not mark their churches...
...Italy is a clerical state which strives to impede Protestant growth." Though the Protestant minority (some 100,000) are guaranteed religious freedom by the Italian constitution, old Fascist police laws are often invoked locally to prevent them from opening churches. The Italian people, says Mackay, while not hostile to Protestants, are cynical about governmental suppression of them-"As in so many other parts of the world today, the old robust liberalism is dead." _ But Protestantism is not only holding its own in Italy, "its ranks swell with new adherents...
...Portugal is a clerical state where a dictator has nationalized a dominant church." But though the country's press has long been silent on the existence of Portugal's 15,000 Protestants, Mackay reports that they enjoy relative freedom. Protestants can get permission to open new places of worship and hold public meetings. Dr. Mackay's presence in Lisbon and a public lecture he delivered in Spanish on "Protestantism and Latin Culture" were reported in the press. The Protestants' "spirit is buoyant and in their ranks are distinguished members of the legal and medical professions...