Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agile, soft-spoken old Negro, who has mounted his pulpit in Washington's 19th Street Baptist Church every Sunday for 52 years, is Dr. Walter Henderson Brooks. Once Dr. Brooks was a slave. Emancipated at 14, he entered Presbyterian-owned Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., at 15. A gift of $500 from some Pittsburgh Presbyterians enabled him to go through college and theological school, start out on a career which has made him the best known of Washington's many Negro preachers. Last month came a proud day for Dr. Brooks when he wrote to Lincoln's white President William...
...rambling church. Once a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church from which he was ousted for heresy. Pastor Sheffer publicly flayed the churches for their machine-like governments, their excessive "talk about God." He encouraged dances in his quarters in the church, twice lent his pulpit to his good Presbyterian friend Norman Thomas. But it was not his theological or social liberalism that caused Pastor Sheffer to resign last week. Bluntly from his pulpit he explained...
...Manhattan restaurant one morning last week three people sat breakfasting on highballs. They were Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, 40, a Roman Catholic priest; Joseph Lieb Steinmetz, 22, a Jew turned Presbyterian theology student; and Mrs. Steinmetz, 17, a minor showgirl whom he had married a fortnight before. The three had met casually the night before. From the restaurant they returned to the Knights of Columbus Club Hotel and the Steinmetz room where another bottle of whiskey was consumed. When Steinmetz began feeling groggy, Father Leonard suggested he lie down. He heard the priest say to his wife...
...Archbishop of Canterbury is a suave, handsome Anglican who lives in Lambeth Palace, goes yachting with J. P. Morgan, takes tea with George V, signs himself Cosmo Cantuar,* and has a Presbyterian brother who, it was announced last week, is to become moderator of the Church of Scotland...
...sons. Cosmo Gordon studied law with a view to entering politics, suddenly changed his mind, entered not his father's church but his King's, rose to be its No.1 prelate. Of his four living brothers, M. (for Marshall) Buchanan Lang, 66, is the only Presbyterian clergyman of the lot. He it was to whom last week the Church of Scotland gave the moderatorship nomination, equivalent to election at the General Assembly next...