Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means all the activities of the Federal Council of Churches have been so clear-cut. Both within and without the churches, critics have declared that the Council is opportunistic, sometimes timid, sometimes too bold. A backhanded approval of Birth Control (TIME, March 30, 1931) caused the Presbyterian Church, South, to bolt the Federal Council. The Federal Council deplored war before the War, has consistently denounced Big Navies ever since...
...Mergers: Free Baptist-Northern Baptist; Presbyterian-Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ; Evangelical Association-United Evangelical; Congregational -Christian; Reformed-Evangelical Synod. Three separate groups formed the United Lutheran Church. In Canada the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches fused in the United Church of Canada...
...Chicago has four "Gold Coast" churches-the Fourth Presbyterian, New England Congregational, St. James Episcopal, St. Chrysostom's Episcopal. The missionary Team united these for the first time in a community service...
Other missionaries got messages too. In a snug hacienda in Caracas, Venezuela, Presbyterian Dorothy Parnell got "from mother and father and Sister Harriet" this message: "Five minutes after you have heard this message read Hebrews 13:20-21. We will read it in unison with you though the seas roll between us." The Parnells read...
...last week, on the last leg of their trip which is to end in Philadelphia Dec. 15. As they have in other cities, they began their first day by breakfasting with the Oklahoma churchmen who had made arrangements for their visit. Then followed a crowded mass meeting at First Presbyterian Church. Later the Team deployed to speak in separate churches. Finally another mass meeting in Oklahoma City College auditorium where students presented a missionary play, Ba Thane...