Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend buy a ticket for him on the Normandie in the name of "R. G. Sucher."*At sailing time, "R. G. Sucher" was aboard but not in evidence. At Dublin he slipped ashore unrecognized, and two hours later was saying "I do" in a little Presbyterian church on Adelaide Road. A member of the U. S. Legation was his best man. He resumed his own name for the ceremony but the clergyman did not twig...
Like a business merger, a church merger requires the tactful employment of special techniques. Last week in Philadelphia, at its 150th annual General Assembly, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A heartened hopers for church unity by its mastery of both tact and tactics. Ever since the Civil War this church has remained separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South). Last week, winding up their General Assembly in Meridian. Miss., Southern Presbyterians approved the work of their committee which is negotiating a reunion with the Northern church. And in Philadelphia. for the first time in nearly...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South) is a conservative denomination with 500,000 members and some hard doctrines. One such hard saying is: "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others foreordained to everlasting death. And their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished." Last week, at the annual Southern Presbyterian General Assembly in Meridian, Miss., this statement came up for discussion. Many a minister defended it, others found it an overstatement which "keeps our ministers constantly...
Chairman McNinch comes from Charlotte, N. C., a thriving city of which he was twice mayor. A small but fearless Presbyterian Elder, in 1918 he armed a number of citizens as special police officers during a bloody streetcar strike, survived a recall vote that followed the disorders and picked up a local reputation for political effectiveness. In 1928 he jumped the Democratic Party to work for Mr. Hoover. Mr. McNinch is against liquor (he keeps a vacuum jug of milk on his desk) and Mr. Al Smith is not. President Hoover rewarded Frank McNinch with a seat on the Federal...
Connor loved fishing, canoeing, talks with political bigwigs, the sound of bagpipes, victorious debates with Baptists (he was a Presbyterian), the city of Edinburgh, football, his work as chaplain of the Canadian forces during the War. But almost everything taught him a lesson; when he could barely lift his arms after paddling a canoe on remote Lake Wanapitei, he found that "you don't forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself...