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...Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving of Baltimore, nephew of Bishops George Herbert Kinsolving of Texas and Lucien Lee Kinsolving of Brazil; to replace Bishop-elect Henry Knox Sherrill as rector of Trinity Church, Boston. (Trinity Church called Bishop-elect Sherrill when he was 32. Russell Henry Stafford became pastor of Trinity's neighbor. Old South Congregational, when...
Paul Bustill Robeson was born in Princeton, N. J., where his father was pastor of the Presbyterian Negro Church. Paul was the youngest of eight children. When the family moved to Somerville, N. J., Paul won many an honor in high school for high marks, all-round athletic ability. He was the third Negro to enter Rutgers. "When he graduated in June 1919, he had won his Phi Beta Kappa key, and had been selected by Walter Camp as end for his annual All-American football team. . . . He had won 12 letters. . . . He delivered the Commencement oration...
...Beaven, 48, has been president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School the past year. For 20 years he was pastor of Rochester, N. Y.'s Lake Avenue Baptist Church, a congregation which has furnished three presidents of the Northern Baptist Convention-Dr. Beaven, Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery (daughter of a onetime minister of that church), Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour (Dr. Beaven's predecessor as minister of the church and president of Colgate-Rochester, now president of Brown University) (TIME...
...call the Presbyterian Church of East Liberty, Pa. the Mellon Church (TIME, April 28). In quite another sense, it is my grandfather's church. He was its first pastor and preached there for 40 years. The "call" came when he was 22 and scarcely a year out of Princeton. In his journal, he calls the venture a "missionary tour to Pittsburgh." He traveled alone across Pennsylvania on horseback and the trip took 15 days (June 10 to June 25, 1829). His journal, kept on the way. is a masterpiece of detail-the price of horse feed-he drank...
Before that happened Dr. Hugh Thomp son Kerr of Pittsburgh, candidate to succeed Moderator Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee of Chicago, displayed his qualifications by an ingenious address. Dr. Kerr, 58, is pastor of Pittsburgh's Shadyside Presbyterian Church. The past five years, since the reorganization of his church's boards, he has been president of its board of Christian education. In Presbyterian theology neither the Liberal nor Conservative groups can claim him. He is a congenial "middle-of-the-roader." The last two years he gained reputation outside his denomination by daily radio talks over Westinghouse's station KDKA, including...