Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white men's epidemics. Three hundred Eskimos at Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry W. Greist, 67, an Indianian who sequestered himself in that remote community as a medical missionary 15 years ago, sent out word that to make more coffins he would be obliged to dismantle outhouses...
...eleven years of Philadelphia, Dr. Whyte accepted a call from another large congregation-Old Stone Church on Public Square in Cleveland. To succeed Dr. Robert Wilson Mark who resigned in 1933, Old Stone's congregation agreed unanimously that Dr. Whyte is the man-one of the ablest of Presbyterian pulpiteers, suave, deep-voiced, grey-haired at 45. Toronto-born and educated, he delivered Canada's message to the first World Brotherhood Conference (32 nations) in London in 1919. Dr. Whyte is an expert on church law. appears as counsel before many a Presbyterian ecclesiastical court. Father of three...
...were accustomed to vote the Denver judge victor over whoever happened to be his adversary. But not in Philadelphia. There, balloting to choose a local figure to debate with Judge Lindsey, 5,000 people overwhelmingly picked Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Whyte, pastor of Philadelphia's biggest church, First Presbyterian. After the debate, the Philadelphians owlishly upheld their choice, handed Ben Lindsey the first defeat he ever experienced...
...Avowed purpose of the Good-Will Union, founded twelve years ago by Rev. Edward Lawrence Hunt, a onetime Presbyterian minister and "100% American," is ''To form a more perfect union." Widow of a Manhattan realtor, Mrs. Tubman met Widower Hunt four years ago, now collaborates with him in patrioteering. Boast they: "There never is an occasion we don't celebrate...
...really couldn't be their priestess," said Alice modestly. "You see I'm a Presbyterian and they...