Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brook (L. I.) School for Boys, the Greists are going to Europe, perhaps to Africa. That is where Dr. Greist wanted to go when he was graduated from Indiana University's School of Medicine 42 years ago. His mind was changed for him when he was ordained a Presbyterian minister and sent among the Eskimos...
...Roman Catholics the 40 days of Lent mean frequent light meals, frequent meatless meals. To most Unitarians and Congregationalists Lent involves no extraordinary self-denial. In recent years churches of the middle ground-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist...
...Laughlin line, more prolific of heirs, has generally left company management pretty much to the Joneses. Founder James Laughlin was a good Presbyterian who served as first president of Western Theological Seminary and founded Pennsylvania College for Women. Grandson Irwin Boyle Laughlin was a career diplomat and onetime Ambassador to Spain. Philadelphia's Rev. Edward R. Laughlin is also a grandson. James Laughlin IV is the member of the Harvard Advocate board who was largely responsible for the ban placed on an issue of that magazine last autumn by Cambridge police. Great-Granddaughter Alice Denniston Laughlin is a stained...
...eyes did wander; and was much surprised to see----whom I have not seen in a long time. How softly she sang; 'twas religion to see her. Anon I to say good morning and she too was surprised to see me here. And did ask was I not Presbyterian or Unitarian. I had to confess I was a Vegetarian but like a good service anywhere...
Kindly, scholarly Rev. Dr. Henry Hayes Sweets, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South), has not held a pulpit since 1904 when he became his Church's secretary of Christian Education & Ministerial Relief. On Sundays Moderator Sweets attends Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, where he notes that most of the worshippers are oldish, like himself (63). On this subject, which currently depresses many another minister, Dr. Sweets sermonized last week in Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock...