Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Daniel Henderson, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg, S. C. left on a year's leave of absence several months ago. In London last month he met an attractive man in the Regent's Park zoo. A clean-cut, serious young fellow he was, named O'Rourke...
...seemed that O'Rourke had just been left a legacy of ?400,000. He had a typewritten letter to prove it. But there were conditions: ?10,000 had to be given to the Pope and ?50,000 more divided among worthy individuals. The Second Presbyterian church of Spartanburg, S. C. seemed a very worthy beneficiary. The Rev. Mr. Henderson put up ?70 of his own money as evidence of good faith. So did another very solid-looking stranger by the name of John Clarke. O'Rourke, Mr. Clarke and the ?70 all disappeared together. To his burning embarrassment...
When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...
...Manhattan, the North Presbyterian Church installed as its pastor Rev. Dr. Merle Hampton Anderson, since 1924 pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich. North Church had resolved to call no minister over 50. It gladly changed its mind last summer when Dr. Anderson, 60, preached three stirring guest sermons...
...Manhattan met the Presbyterian League of Faith, militant Fundamentalist organization to which some 1,200 of the 10,000 U. S. Presbyterian ministers belong. Unabashed by the trouncing administered them at the last Presbyterian General Assembly (TIME, June 5), the Fundamentalists proclaimed they are holding their line, unanimously nominated as their candidate for moderator at next Assembly Rev. Dr. Harold S. Laird, 42, pastor of First & Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington...