Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trustees of the Seminary announced a few days later that Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church for 21 years, and teacher at the Seminary for 22 years-yet still on the early side of 50-was chosen to succeed Dr. McGiffert. He is a liberal in the church, with a background of scholarship at Yale, at the Seminary of which he now becomes President, at New-College, Edinburgh, and the University of Marburg...
...Presbyterian, 9 bodies...
Last week in Manhattan the Presbyterian Hospital staff announced some preliminary findings instructive to parents who think all diabetic children waste away. The report, based on observations of 34 young diabetics, showed that all except four were overweight or overgrown during the early stages of the disease. Proper insulin treatment and intelligent dieting throughout life are essential for them. Without insulin at least, affected children under ten rarely live more than two years. Persons between 10 and 20 years endure two to four years; between 20 and 30, four to six years; after 30, 5 to 15 years...
...three lectures on the Southworth Foundation will be given this year by the Reverend Richard Roberts, minister of the American Presbyterian Church in Montreal. The general subjects of the lectures will be "The Divine Grace and the Divine Society." The specific subject, dates, and places, where they will be held, follow: April 6. "Man and His Society--the Biological Background," in Emerson D at 8 o'clock; April 7, "The New Man and the New Society--the New Testament Position," in Andover Chapel at 3.30 o'clock; April 8, "Freedom and Fellowship--the Present Problem, its Historical Origins...
Fundamentalist League. Fundamentalist members of the Presbyterian Church for some time have been organizing into a Laymen's League. Original plans were to keep this league a secret one and work under cover. But second thought has decided its originators to make public the aims. The league will keep "its members posted on all matters in defense of the faith" by means of a monthly bulletin. Detailed plans are out by which fundamentalist laymen may be elected as commissioners to the forthcoming session of the Presbyterian General Assembly. D. Webster Wylie is President of the League, with offices...