Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried The Presbyterian last week: "One is made very sad. ... It is too bad about the blood atonement being 'revolting' to young people. It is pretty small for mature people to put blame on the young people. It is the mature and aged hard-shelled worldlings who make the protest. . . . The noblest young people brought up in a Christian way do not revolt from the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The fact is they hear too little of it and when they know it, they glory in it as Paul did. If this Methodist movement...
...Presbyterian last fortnight wrote a Mrs. Harry Strachan, telling of missioneering in Latin America: "This new venture needs very special prayer. The [Catholic] priests have sent down to Santa Cruz, where Messrs. Young and Lopez have been working since the end of December, four nuns who are copying exactly our own methods of work. . . . This counter-propaganda will keep many souls out of the Kingdom of Christ. Only prayer can avail...
Henry Ward Beecher went to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. His father, Lyman Beecher, was the first president of this little Presbyterian institution which was chartered in 1829 with a gift of money from Ebenezer Lane, New Orleans Baptist, and 60 acres of hilly land from Elnathan Kemper, Cincinnati Presbyterian. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of Lane's Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe, wrote part of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Lane Seminary. A gentle decline set in 30 years ago. Last week Lane had left only 23 students, ten acres of campus, one professor, one part-time lecturer...
...years ago Lane Seminary was ready to merge, either with Princeton Theological Seminary or Chicago Presbyterian Seminary. Not until last week was a compromise effected. Lane goes to Chicago. Its antique buildings will be sold. Its minute faculty, its minuscule student body, its fine library of 25,000 volumes, and probably its President Richmond Ames Montgomery, will move to Chicago in April...
...world's largest institution of learning for men & women. Monuments to Dr. Butler are Teachers' College and its many affiliates, and Columbia's great summer school. Dr. Butler secured for Columbia the well-endowed Pulitzer School of Journalism, whence emerge the yearly Pulitzer Prizes. The University jointly with the Presbyterian Hospital owns the Medical Center, is related to many a hospital, museum and laboratory. Also there is the famed Uni-versity Extension of home study which adds 4,939 corresponding students to Columbia's rolls. Centres for study as well as cultural life are the Deutsches Haus, Maison Franchise, Casa...