Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revivify the spiritual life of the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 28). This venture, first of its kind, enlisted the aid of 70 U. S., Canadian and British religionists who in groups of various sizes visited 25 U.S. localities. Conceived originally by one-time Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., the project cost $60,000 of which two-thirds was raised by local churches, the rest by private donations, John D. Rockefeller Jr. being put down for a modest contribution. With details of transportation handled by Secretary Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council...
...done with it." Son Patrick took the bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what he should do. She advised him to pay a deputy $10 to act as hangman. He replied that he would not ask another man to do a dirty job like that...
James Willison Smith, president of the Land Title Bank & Trust Co., a member of the General Council of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Said he: "I cannot understand...
...weekly Presbyterian Banner announced that Toronto's Victoria College awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree Oct. 10 to "Lord Tweed S. Muir, Governor-General of Canada." Few days after said John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.: "We are living in a confused and difficult world...
...woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later by a merging of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational bodies, it did not follow the lead of U. S. Methodists in ordaining women. Unable to administer such sacraments as baptism and marriage, Lydia Gruchy began preaching and teaching among young girls, finally became assistant to Rev. Geoffrey Glover of St. Andrew's Church in Moose...