Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Yale Graduate, Princeton President, Presbyterian, "America's greatest meta-physician...
...college. He prepared for the ministry, but would not become ordained because he felt that priesthood would limit his influence.* Almost at once he stepped into a world business - Foreign Missions. Most of his life has been spent as one of the two or three executives of Presbyterian Foreign Missions. His business has led him into almost every country of heathendom...
...Albert Edwin Keigwin testified to having had 'direct communication with God. He is pastor of a church which claims the largest Presbyterian membership in New York...
...Prophets of Yesterday", by John Kelman, well-known minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City, deals with the significance of the teachings of Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning in modern thought...
Physicians at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, have also initiated a series of studies on body constitution in relation to disease. Their first studies, made on 50 patients with gall-bladder disease and 39 patients with ulcers of the stomach or intestines, indicated that persons who are heavy in relation to their height are more likely to have gall-bladder disease than are other persons. They also found that a wide angle between the ribs, at the point where they diverge in front, is a frequent finding in infections of the gallbladder. And they observed that the jaws and teeth...