Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every March the Presbyterian Church conducts its money-raising Every Member Canvass. Last March was an unfortunate one for the Presbyterians; the week they campaigned was the Week the Banks Closed. The Canvass undershot its mark, $50,000,000 for missions and home expenses, by $8,000,000. Last week the Presbyterians launched a supplementary canvass. They called it a "Spiritual Recovery Crusade." They began organizing the nation's 10,000 Presbyterian ministers to "Do Our Part" in a great drive which will culminate with special church services everywhere Oct. 29. Said Dr. Herman Carl Weber, statistician and Every...
...Weber reported that receipts for Presbyterian benevolences have dropped to $5,768,304 (43.9% below 1929); congregational expenses to $26,750,132 (25.5%); special receipts such as for church building to $3,809,586 (73.7%). Dr. Weber also told Presbyterians last week what some other Protestants are doing...
Born 44 years ago to a Privy Councillor and his concubine, Toyohiko Kagawa was registered as legitimate, brought up in luxury, educated for a political career. When the child was n his father died and a rich uncle took him in. A Buddhist, Kagawa studied English in a Presbyterian English Bible Class. At 15 he became a Christian, was promptly disinherited. His health failing, he lived for a time in a poor fishing village, then for four years in the slums of Kobe. He went to the U. S., studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, earned expenses at odd times...
November 5 Rev. Morgan Noyes, Central Presbyterian Church, Montclair...
...every third year at Santa Clara, Calif. Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 91, famed oldtime foe of Tammany, of injuries suffered when he, a somnambulist, fell from the porch roof of his home in Ventnor, N. J. In 1892, as pastor of Manhattan's socialite Madison Square Presbyterian Church, bushy-bearded, scholarly Dr. Parkhurst amazed his congregation by a sermon in which he charged that gambling and prostitution were protected by New York's police. He hotly described the Tammany administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted harpies, and a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous...