Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Presbyterian Conference at Cleveland expressed complete confidence in the officials of the various church boards. Some of these officials?notably the secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions? had been attacked on the grounds that they were permitting unorthodox Presbyterians to serve as missionaries...
...Christianity is taking Jesus in earnest", said Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, professor of practical theology in the Union Theological Seminary and pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York, in his address at the Union last night on "What is Christianity?" More than 500 men packed the Living Room to hear him speak...
...gain entrance. He spoke last May at the Union on the subject, "Is Religion Coming Back?" The preceding year at Phillips Brooks House he discussed "The Ministry as a Vocation." He is professor of practical theology at the Union Theological Seminary and also pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York...
...vivid and stern realism he paints a picture of sweltering heat, disease, fever, and death in the midst of a polyglot community of picturesque but unattractive traders (and scoundrels), ignorant and unpleasant savages, and an anomalous horde of half-castes, to say nothing of his pet aversions, the Presbyterian missionaries and the "Orstrylyun" bagmen. There is more of Somerset Maugham than...
...Revolutionary times great efforts to unite these churches were inspired by Jonathan Edwards (Congregationalist) and John Witherspoon (Presbyterian President of Princeton College...