Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, 28 years ago, Johnson soloed in the Brick Presbyterian Church, then sang in a Broadway musical comedy to earn enough money for study in Italy. There, as in the U. S., his plain Anglo-Saxon name was a handicap. He changed it to Eduardo di Giovanni, made his mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pell...
...bodies belonging to the Home Missions Council, five of the largest agreed that after next Oct. 1 they will refrain from subsidizing any enterprise-such as a village church or a school for Indians-that appears to duplicate the work of another. The five denominations -Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist and Reformed-Evangelical - spent $12,629,883 last year, or 55% of the total for Protestant home missions...
...Sundays ago Rev. Dr. John Hess McComb, broad-shouldered 36-year-old bachelor, mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's Broadway Presbyterian Church to preach on "Christ and Him Crucified." He was well aware that this and subsequent sermons would be worth exactly $77,296 to his new church, which had called him from Forest Park Presbyterian in Baltimore. That sum was bequeathed to Broadway Church by its longtime Fundamentalist pastor, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, who died last year, aged 74, worth $1,086,576 which he had largely acquired by marrying into...
...Church, 100 laymen and ministers began by cautiously examining Mr. McComb as to his theology and character, so cautiously that one minister chided them all for ''pussyfooting and chasing around the bush." What was in their minds, he knew, was: would Fundamentalist McComb be loyal to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions? Or was he mixed up in that Independent Board which has caused the Presbyterian Church so much trouble? Mr. McComb finally said that he had never given a penny to the rebel board, but: ''I must refuse to bind myself unconditionally...
Last Sunday, besides being the Catholic feast of St. Nereus & Companions, was Mother's Day. In Pittsburgh was dedicated a $4,000,000 church. East Liberty Presbyterian, given by the late Richard Beatty Mellon and his wife Jennie King Mellon in memory of their mothers. Four years abuilding by famed Medievalist Architect Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic church will seat 1.700, will automatically become the cathedral of Presbyterianism in an already strongly Presbyterian city...