Word: maclennan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, who married Lana Turner and Bob Topping three days after Topping's divorce, was formally reproved by his elders. The rebuke, read aloud to him as he stood with head bowed, accused him of having "brought reproaches upon your Christian profession," and warned him to "be more watchful" in future of "the common evil of the remarriage of divorced persons...
...Angeles Presbytery finally took the bull by the horns: Dr. Stewart P. MacLennan, who married Lano & Bob Topping last April-an un-Presbyterian three days after Bob's divorce-would presently be subjected to a formal rebuke, decided the elders...
...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan said he had not realized that he had violated Presbyterian constitutional law by officiating at the fourth marriage of Cinemactress Lana Turner and Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. He had been much impressed, he said, by Miss Turner's "sincerity and the depth of feeling in her . . . There is a spiritual quality in that woman ... I became convinced that they . . . wanted to break with the past and put their marriage on a Christian basis." Since Minister Mac-Lennan admits violating the rules, a presbytery judicial commission will not have...
...Angeles, Presbyterian churchmen decided that at its next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory...
Furthermore, said MacLennan, "Americans are never afraid of making a mistake. . . . This is the mark of a big man, and of a great nation. . . . Canadians pay too much importance to mistakes. . . . Americans are proud of what they do. The excessive puritanism of Canadians makes them proud of what they...