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Word: presbyterian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Speaker was Rev. Harry E. Fosdick, recently (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq:) jockeyed out of a Presbyterian pulpit. "Nine-tenths of the religious problem," said he, "is a senseless controversy over questions of History." Religion is like a crab, outgrowing one shell and building another. Religion consists of "the great reproducible experiences of the soul itself, with its fellows, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Speeches | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...Coolidge unveiled a tablet in the Central Presbyterian Church oi" Washington commemorating the laying of the cornerstone of the present edifice by Woodrow Wilson, then an elder. Mrs. Wilson vvas present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Engaged. Francis Grover Cleveland, youngest son of the late President Grover Cleveland, to Miss Alice Erdman, daughter of Dr. Charles R. Erdman pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...another occasion, a Methodist minister ventured to express the hope that, whatever their present divergencies were, his Presbyterian brother and he would be one in spirit after the Union. Returned the Presbyterian: "We certainly shall not-you'll be a Methodist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mightiest Adventure | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

Again, a Unionist asked: "Don't you think that the Grace of God does the same kind of job under a Methodist waistcoat as beneath a Presbyterian one?" The reply: "The Grace of God can only do its best with such material as it has to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mightiest Adventure | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

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