Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could be seen taking the two ladies and their husbands from the New Willard Hotel to the Congregational Church. Now the President's automobile carrying Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge still goes thither, but the Vice President's car carries Mr. and Mrs. Dawes to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. And furthermore Town Topics saith the Vice President has a "stubborn streak"; he will not be submerged in the brilliance of the Chief Executive...
...Republican National Committee. There was method in the President's choice of a writer. The "Chief Clerk" gathers material for and assists the President in preparing speeches and important letters. ¶Mrs. Coolidge autographed a picture of the White House and presented it to a local Presbyterian Church, where it will be auctioned at a bazaar, and the proceeds sent to Persia for the support of missionaries. She also lit two candles in a White House window as a signal for the opening of the sale of "Christmas seals" by the National Tuberculosis Association. ¶ "To all to whom...
...opportunity for doing good on a greater scale; sometimes they go because they regard New York City as a sink of iniquity in whose cleansing their conscience impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried to interview Dr. Kirk. In reply to their inquiries, he stated calmly that there were sown fields in Baltimore which he had "worked over and prayed over" whose harvests were "as yet unreaped." He had discovered after the call...
...York Sun said: "New York can regret the decision of the Rev. Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk to decline the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in this city and at the same time honor him for the motives which impelled him to remain in Baltimore...
Elliott Kirk declines the call to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, for receiving his decision with a certain degree of amazement. Amazing as it is, however, and regrettable from New York's point of view, it must be regarded with deference. . . . Far from regarding the ministry as a career, with such canons of success, as obtain in other careers, he seems to regard it as a service, to be detached from his personal acclaim and to be followed where duty lies...