Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young People's Conference of the Presbyterian Church. Reasons: "A Christian gentleman . . . sterling character . . . dignified . . . high ideals . . . Protestant faith . . . Prohibition...
...Washington; is forthright and voluble in debate. Law was his first study. He was a student in the Inner Temple. But just when he might have been admitted to the British bar he suddenly chose the cloth for the gown. His father was one of the moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. † The son preferred the more hierarchal Church of England for his career. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford (after a period at Glasgow University) had something to do with his decision. By 1901 he had become Bishop of Stepney and Canon of St. Paul's, London...
...Latest Department of Commerce figures show for various denominations: Congregational...................................... 901,846 Protestant Episcopal ...........................1,858,966 Disciples of Christ.............................. 1,377,595 Northern Baptist Convention............ 1,290,438 Presbyterian......................................... 1,894,000 Methodist Episcopal Church, South..................................... 2,487,694 Methodist Episcopal Church, North...................................... 4,080,777 Jewish................................................... 4,087,357 American Baptist Association............... 117,858 Church of God, Holiness............................ 2,278 Free Church of God in Christ...
Because of these regulations the Presbyterian Missions Board of Governors, at Manhattan, ordered closed last week for an indefinite period the 81-year-old Hangchow Christian College at Hangchow, China...
...preachers sometimes have cause to mention vice, it is well for them to have some knowledge of its nature and consequences. Thus it might be clever for some preacher to perform for a time as the driver of a taxi. This was what the Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley, Manhattan Presbyterian pastor...