Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whether it be Cabinet officers, a United States Senator, a Methodist Bishop, a Baptist evangelist, a Presbyterian doctor of divinity, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Pope of Rome, I do not propose to allow any man to declare, without my indignant protest, that the stalwart, God-fearing men and praying handmaidens of God who fought for prohibition on their knees as well as at the ballot box are given to the habitual practice of misrepresentation...
...summary of the diversified activities which have caused him to be regarded with international suspicion: 1) Entered an English Presbyterian theological college, after announcing his conversion from Judaism to Christianity; 2) Became a Presbyterian clergyman; 3) Secretary to B. Seebohm Rowntree, the millionaire Quaker cocoa manufacturer; 4) Liberal M. P. cartooned by Punch for speaking broken English mixed with Hungarian in Parliament; 5) Wartime mail censor in the British Postoffice Department; 6) Employed by Herr Steinhauer of the German Secret Service while still receiving British pay; 7) Imprisoned at Brooklyn, N. Y., pending extradition to England, where he was sentenced...
...Germany led the revolt for Reformation against the current Catholicism. There Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) followed and modified somewhat Luther's tenets. To Switzerland John Calvin (1509-64), a Frenchman, migrated, learned the doctrine of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). The Lutheran Church follows Luther's teachings. The Presbyterian and the Reformed Churches follow those of Calvin and Zwingli...
Harry Emerson Fosdick is a positive preacher. When he stands on a platform, his body tense, dynamic, his wavy hair brushed back, his heavy-lidded eyes gleaming, then his audience, whether it be Baptist, Presbyterian or lay, knows well that here is a leader that knows his business, his mind. He is definite and outspoken. Last year he was offered the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church,* at Park Avenue and 64th St., Manhattan, from which Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin had retired. Dr. Fosdick accepted the call, with the following stipulations: that membership in the congregation be open...
...Reverend Alexander MacColl, D.D., Minister of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...