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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Iowa has just organized a school of religion in which earnest men will strive to teach religion as a dynamic force in life, rather than as a matter of creed, tenets, rites, thaumaturgy or priestcraft. At this aim, endorsed by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, the Presbyterian, "an official organ of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," last week scoffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Farce | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

Because, alone of the principal Confessional Protestant communions, the Presbyterian recognizes desertion as well as adultery as proper grounds for divorce, a committee headed by Dr. Clarence Edward Macartney of Pittsburgh last week recommended that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ground for Divorce | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

Complacent, President Herbert W. Reherd administers Westminster College, Presbyterian institution at Salt Lake City, Utah. Enterprising, he regularly advertises his school in the Presbyterian, one of the denomination's weekly magazines. Blatant, considering himself the missionary to the Mormons, he had this advertisement printed in the Presbyterian last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Mormons | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...trainloads of Presbyterians, who will be on their way to the 139th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America at San Francisco the end of May, have decided to break their journey at Salt Lake City to study the Mormon field where Dr. Reherd labors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Mormons | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Onetime Philadelphia Presbyterian deaconess, Miss Mary I. Craig, was captured by bandits, last week, in Yunnan with the Rev. and Mrs. Morris Schlicter, their three-year-old daughter and small son, of Toronto, Canada. The bandits, enraged to discover their captives were almost without funds, shot and knifed Mr. Schlicter and his daughter on the spot, then vanished with their other captives into the remote interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: White Casualties | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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