Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Christabel Pankhurst, evangelist: "At a Presbyterian conference, said I: 'Because of the immorality of the fiction of our day I do not see how girls have the slightest chance to remain good...
...second marriage. The first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died during her husband's term of office. The second Mrs. Harrison (Mrs. Dimmick) was a niece of the first Mrs. Harrison, and 35 years the junior of the ex-President. A week before their marriage in 1896, General Harrison (a Presbyterian) was converted to the Episcopal faith. His son and daughter by his first marriage openly disapproved of the second and did not attend it. The second Mrs. Harrison bore her husband one daughter. Since his death (March 13, 1901) she has lived very quietly. Last week she telegraphed Mrs. Harding...
...Presbyterians. Figures announced by Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly, show that the church has gained over 46,000 members through the last year, and has passed, for the first time, the 1,800,000 mark in total membership. The Presbyterians have 9.706 churches and 9,979 pastors. Their Sunday School membership is 300.000 less than their church membership. The government of the Presbyterian Church is much like the government of the United States. Alexander Hamilton, author of the Federalist, was a Presbyterian, and is supposed to have drawn some of his inspiration...
...schools are of college grade, and the state universities are Mormon controlled. Westminster College is only a junior (2 year) college, but is now raising $750,000 to combat Mormonism in its own citadel. Of the desired amount $50,000, has been raised for Christian education, largely from the Presbyterian Church...
...gift has no connection with the organized Rockefeller philanthropies, but will be distributed by Dr. Simon Flexner, Director of the Rockefeller Institute, to the following hospitals: University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.; New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago; Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland; University Hospital, Iowa City, la.; Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Physiatric Institute, Morristown, N. J.; Touro Infirmary, New Orleans; Presbyterian Hospital, New York; Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto General Hospital, Banting-Best Fund, University of Toronto, Toronto...