Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the United Church of Canada (TIME, Jan. 19) came officially into being. Hereafter, 30% of the people of the Dominion will worship at churches bearing that name. But in brackets will appear the old names-Presbyterian, Methodist or Congregational...
Evangelists are needed in the colleges to overcome "atheism and moral chaos"--this is the prescription recommended by the Reverend Doctor S. Edward Young, a Presbyterian minister of Brooklyn. Dr. Young assumes that the tendency in the colleges is toward atheism, and he assumes, moreover, that moral chaos is the natural outcome of atheism. Neither assumption seems justified...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, Manhattan divine, returned from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Columbus, Ohio. From his pulpit, he declared he would rather submit his conscience to the tyranny of the Pope than to the tyranny of a General Assembly. His devoted congregation prepared to gasp, but quickly found itself smiling when the pastor added: "I never thought I would turn to the Roman Pontiff for liberty...
...Manhattanite. Graduated from Yale at the age of 20 with highest honors, he struck out from the ancestral paths, plunged into the ministry, and was soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation in Manhattan. Meanwhile, it had been a pioneer in the erection of a model Church House for boys' clubs and the like...
...issue is whether the Presbyterian shall be, like the Roman Catholic, a church of hard and fast dogma, unalterably decreed by the head of the Church, or whether it shall be a Church including in its membership all those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as their divine Lord and Master and who desire to do His will...