Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassador. Alarmed by President Hoover's appointment of Presbyterian Motorman John North Willys to be U. S. Ambassador at Warsaw (Mr. Hoover had previously designated Methodist Alexander Pollack Moore, who died before he could take the post) the Polish Catholic Press Agency last week sent out as news a story that "Mr. Willys finances anti-Catholic fanatics, mostly Methodists...
Graduations. Two front-rank Presbyterian divinity schools conducted their graduation exercises last week. Princeton...
Theological Seminary, important because it is a prime school of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. as well as the denomination's oldest, held its 118th exercises. Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, important because it is the doctrinal incubator for those dissident Fundamentalists who broke away from Princeton last year (TIME, Aug. 5), held its first exercises...
Women. For a decade Presbyterian women have sought admission to their theocracy. At the Presbyterian General Assembly in St. Paul last year their protagonists succeeded in getting referred to the presbyteries the overtures that 1) women be ordained as ministers; 2) women serve as ruling elders; 3) women serve as local evangelists. Last week the decision on two points was conclusive: the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. will not permit ordination of women as ministers, but will permit their election as ruling elders, permission which makes possible a woman as moderator. Votes on the other point were...
...Barbara Negley of Pittsburgh erected there a tiny wooden edifice which was called the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. In 1848 her son-in-law Judge Thomas Mellon helped the same parish build a bigger wooden building, and in 1864 he contributed toward a two-story brick structure. In 1888 Judge Mellon had a share in the construction of the fourth East Liberty Presbyterian Church, a stone house of worship accommodating 1,600, which still exists...