Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Philadelphia, Vatican City of Presbyterian Fundamentalism, issued a new semimonthly, The Presbyterian Guardian, the last word in undiluted orthodoxy, as expounded by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. Well and briskly written, the journal's news columns deal mainly with the tribulations of members of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions who have lately been tried & suspended from the Presbyterian Church...
Most notable feature of The Presbyterian Guardian is that it contains the first religious comic strip, drawn by Philip Saint, 23, pious son of Lawrence B. Saint, famed Pennsylvania maker of stained glass. First issue of the strip introduced its hero, Gary, and his mother, Mrs. Evans and his small brother Dave, all "Bible-believing Christians" (see cut). Bidding her son good-by as he departs for college, Mrs. Evans says: "Remember, prayer changes things." Replies Gary: "Yes, mother, and pray that I'll live clean and speak boldly so that many students will be led to Christ...
...thoroughly happy man last week was Board Chairman James Milliken Speers, 73, of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan drygoods store. Besides serving McCutcheon's for 55 years, Merchant Speers, a good Presbyterian, has been active in many a pious cause. He is glowingly proud of his six sons. Two are in the service of his prosperous store and the rest in the service of God. Son Thomas Guthrie Speers is pastor of Baltimore's Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. Son Peter teaches in Forman Christian College, Lahore, India; Son James Jr. at Shanghai American School. Last week Son Theodore Cuyler...
...Hill School and Princeton remember "Ted" Speers (Class of 1921) as a husky, good-natured footballer who took ten months off from his college course to serve with the A. E. F. After three years at Union Theological Seminary and an apprentice pastorate in a Manhattan Presbyterian chapel, Preacher Speers went in 1928 to Utica, N. Y.'s First Presbyterian Church, to whose congregation in the past three years he has added 250 new members...
...others: Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University-New York Hospital, New York University-Bellevue Hospital...