Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Again, three months ago, youthful Stanley Hoflund High, Methodist editor of the nondenominational Christian Herald, was quoted : "The time is overripe for the establishment of a Dry newspaper, and lots of people are thinking about it." Last week the subject again became news when the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, meeting in Pittsburgh, commended the efforts "of a group of substantial citizens . . . to establish and maintain a national daily newspaper to be published in metropolitan New York, the same to be distinctively Christian in its spirit and outlook. . . . The proposals . . . that it stand squarely for Prohibition, support every cause...
Scotchmen as represented in the two larger U. S. Presbyterian bodies got after the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last week. Immediate excitement of attack was the Federal Council's recent report to the 27 Protestant Churches for which it performs social research, that U. S. churchmen advised a tolerant attitude toward Birth Control (TIME, March...
...began cleaning up that wicked stopover towards the Klondike goldfields. He disrupted the brothels in the valleys and smashed the gambling dens on the hills. He brought the regenerate to God, and now with a congregation of 7,886 and with 27 branch Sunday Schools has the largest Presbyterian Church in the world on his hands. He is a tall, slender, white-haired Lion of Judah, 63. He habitually wears a frock coat and, like the late William Jennings Bryan whom he much resembles in dogmatic religious zeal, he affects a broad-brimmed slouch...
Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Pittsburgh last week. Dr. Matthews rose to his full height and, with the authority of a onetime (1912) moderator and an everlasting warrior, denunciated: "The Federal Council must be taught to under stand that the Presbyterian Church is not going to stand for ill-advised utterances on moral subjects, and if it cannot be taught, our financial support [$18,000] will be withdrawn. [Let] the Federal Council be instructed to hold its peace on questions of delicacy, morality and integrity until we have an opportunity...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South) at Montreat, N. C., last week made no such ado about Birth Control and the Council. Forthright conservatives who know their own minds, they simply denounced Birth Control, refused to allot their annual scot of $750 to the Federal Council, and voted complete severance from that interdenominational organization, although expressing for it unanimous "fraternal love...