Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personality, background and ambition the teammates are as different as they appear on the platform. Pianist Maier, volatile, talkative, fairly bursting with energy, comes from Buffalo, the son of a retail shoe dealer. As a boy he had a burning desire to be a Presbyterian minister. He went to the New England Conservatory of Music instead, there met Lee Pattison of Eagle Grove, Iowa, who had always quietly intended being a musician. In Boston the friends gave their first two-piano recitals, then in 1914 went to Berlin to study with Arthur Schnabel, famed Brahms expert who came...
...Albany last week Rev. Kenneth Brakeley Welles of Westminster Presbyterian Church opened a session of the New York State Assembly thus...
...know now what war is. The mask has been stripped away from the War and we see how futile, how unChristian, how damnable the whole business is. The ghost of the past makes some of us feel bloodguilty in the sight of God."-Dr. Ray Freeman Jenney, Park Central Presbyterian Church, Syracuse...
...Presbyterian General Council some time ago appointed a special committee to study the spiritual state of the Church. Members are: Moderator Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr; Dr. William Chalmers Covert, Philadelphia; Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Manhattan; Frederic B. Shipp, Pittsburgh; Stated Clerk Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Philadelphia. Last week the committee made its first public act: dedicated Feb. 18 as a day of personal prayer for the 10,000 Presbyterian ministers...
...Presbyterians throughout the U. S. who served as chaplains during the War were sent that question by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. Last week the Board had a mass of answers. Every former chaplain declared in one way or another that "never again would he participate in war or approve war." Examples...