Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week they buried William Jennings Bryan. They brought his body to the Capital, where it lay in state in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church for 24 hours, guarded by Spanish War veterans, while crowds filed past it. At the same time his last speech, prepared for the evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn., but never delivered, was given to the public by his family (see EDUCATION) his last gift to the country...
Charles R. Erdman, Presbyterian Moderator...
Than the Rev. Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, few distinguished divines have been honored by more distinguished universities. Two weeks ago, Columbia University, and, last week, Princeton, conferred upon him an honorary D.D. Already he had been so honored by New York University, 1906; by Yale, his alma mater, 1915 ; by Harvard...
Married. Miss Alice Erdman, daughter of Dr. Charles R. Erdman, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, to Francis Grover Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U. S. President; in Princeton...
...former Methodist churches joined the new Church. All but 7 of the 181 Congregational Churches surrendered their old autonomy. But the Presbyterians split. Of some 4,600 Presbyterian congregations, nearly 900 have refused to unite, have formed a separatist organization...