Word: presbyterian
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...call the Presbyterian Church of East Liberty, Pa. the Mellon Church (TIME, April 28). In quite another sense, it is my grandfather's church. He was its first pastor and preached there for 40 years. The "call" came when he was 22 and scarcely a year out of Princeton. In his journal, he calls the venture a "missionary tour to Pittsburgh." He traveled alone across Pennsylvania on horseback and the trip took 15 days (June 10 to June 25, 1829). His journal, kept on the way. is a masterpiece of detail-the price of horse feed-he drank...
...nine U. S. Presbyterian bodies, the three largest held annual conferences last week?Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (northern, largest) in Cincinnati; Presbyterian Church in the United States (southern, next largest) at Charlottesville, Va.; United Presbyterian Church of North America (middle western) in Des Moines. The imminence of the 1900th Pentecost (June 8) made general church union a prayed-for but no more practical topic than usual at each one of these meetings. Although the Presbyterians have been an exceedingly divisive denomination, most of them have approved and adhere to the general council of the Presbyterian...
Nonetheless Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee, retiring Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., went so far as to note that although "it is certain that for some reason, perhaps the Pentecostal spirit, church union is now a living issue," the hope of ecumenical union, including the Catholic group, seemed practically at an end, and that he was unaware of any valid steps having been taken during the past year, except in local situations, to encompass a Protestant union as a whole. Yet every minister of his organization, if he followed instructions, prayed and preached last Sunday...
...interested but non-interfering observer of this Episcopalian incident was Bishop Abbott's elder brother, Mather Almon Abbott, headmaster of Lawrenceville School, a Presbyterian...
When the conservative Presbyterian dissidents left Princeton Theological Seminary to found Westminster Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (TIME. Aug. 5, et seg.), they surrendered the forum of The Presbyterian, denominational publication. Last week the dissidents issued the first number of their own newsorgan. Christianity Today. Editor is Dr. Samuel G. Craig, resigned editor of The Presbyterian. The editorial viewpoint of Christianity Today is somewhat startling to militant Protestants because it presages cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church. As phrased by Dr. Craig it is "that of the Calvinistic rather than that of the Lutheran or Arminian Churches" but "there will...