Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forcibly demonstrated last week (TIME, May 21), was again emphasized when the bishops gave their approval to moves for merging the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Korea. With pleasure, they received messages from Congregationalist State Conventions which endorsed the proposed union of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. They learned, too, that in New York State the Congregationalists and the Disciples of Christ were planning a local merger which they hope later to make national...
...Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist Churches of Canada ceased being separate organizations and became the United Church of Canada (TIME, June 22. 1925). The unification was not unanimous nor was it accomplished without wheezings and cries from minority separatists...
...union and other men to cry them down. Yet last week, at the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being held in Kansas City, a resolution was introduced to effect not merely the long-discussed union with the Methodist Episcopal Church South but also with Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. This resolution was passed unanimously by the Committee on the State of the Church; when presented to the entire congress of Methodist potentates, it was passed again by a vote of 852 to 3. The proposal concerned 55,000 pastors, 60,000 churches, 35,000.000 human souls...
...Conference approved a single commission of 37 members to represent their entire church in all unification discussions. The first of these will perhaps occur soon after the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Tulsa, Okla., next week, where a similar unity proposal will be discussed...
Tsining is the seat of a hospital and school maintained by the United States Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Last week, details finally emerged as to the recent murder of Hospital Superintendent Dr. Walter F. Seymour (TIME, May 7). It appeared that when Nationalist troops took Tsining recently on their victorious march to Tsinan (see above) a group of Nationalist soldiers rushed for the women's dormitory of the mission school with intent to possess themselves of its occupants. When kindly Dr. Seymour sought to bar the dormitory door with his slender body the soldiers shot him down...