Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the New Deal, What? (Macmillan, $2) by Norman Thomas. To modern economic sinners the Socialist Presidential nominee, a onetime Presbyterian parson, preaches a purgatory of Fascism, a paradise of Socialism. Voters who agree with his rational analysis of current confusions may be less easily convinced than in 1932 that the Socialist ticket offers the best...
...your July 20 issue you had an article regarding the exhumation of the body of Peter Stuart Ney, which lies buried in the graveyard of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church two miles from Cleveland, N. C. You stated that the body was dug up in 1887, a skull found, and a plaster cast made of same, which has since disappeared. I wish to inform you that two weeks ago the daughter of Dr. P. A. Laugenour, who made this plaster cast, located the same in the attic of his widow. She presented the same to the writer...
...have compared by the modern handwriting experts in Washington. Several books on this subject have been written by ministers and doctors, but I feel that this is a mystery to be solved by a detective, and this is why I secured permission from the Session of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church to again exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, and we propose to sift the earth in an endeavor to locate a silver plate which was thought to have been worn in Ney's head, and also a bullet that was supposed to have been in the calf...
Next February brings the 100th anniversary of Moody's birth. With the determination of churchmen to savor such an occasion to the fullest, the Moody centenary was launched last week with a mass meeting chairmanned by Dr. John McDowell, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., onetime pupil at Northfield's Mount Hermon School for Boys which Dwight Moody founded. Among men who will help Dr. McDowell in arranging Moody celebrations are Dr. John R. Mott and Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, prime exponents of the evangelism for which East Northfield stands today; Sir John...
...angels can't enjoy." But toward the end of his career this evangelist, who was no great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled Presbyterian church, but with all his talent for vigorous organization he could not fill it. To build from the ground up he established the East Northfield schools and conferences, the Moody Bible Institute which still flourishes in Chicago, keeps a radio soul-saving service going all day long. Though the British...