Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazine, as The Christian Century describes itself, and the denominational press. Except for the Wet Catholic journals, most important of which are Commonwealth and America, the denominational press is mainly a Dry bulwark. Prohibition leans hard upon the support of the Methodist Episcopal Christian Advocate (circulation 250,000), the Presbyterian Christian Observer (34,553), and their like...
Simple are the merging of educational and missionary equipment. Not so simple is the merging of church organizations. The Pittsburgh conferees urged time and latitude for this process. The Presbyterian subsidiaries of the new Church might retain their "sessions," the Reformed subsidiaries their "consistories." Consistories and sessions differ more in name than in function. Presbyteries or "classes" (larger groupings which include sessions and consistories, respectively) in a particular region need merge organization, equipment and endowment only if they wish...
...been conducting with the Evangelical Synod of North America. Those negotiations might be dropped, as similar Reformed dealings with the United Brethren in Christ have been dropped, or, what seemed more likely last week, the United Brethren and the Evangelicals might be assimilated into the Presbyterian-Reformed association...
Name of the amalgamated Church is another undecided problem. There are two existing bodies whose unwieldy names might be adopted or simplified-"Alliance of Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian System," and "The General Council of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in America." But pat, handy, attractive was a name suggested last week: the American Church, a term not yet appropriated by any worshipping band...