Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gordon Mohr, Army observers in Sunchon, narrowly escaped death. The rebel sergeant assigned to kill them was an old friend, who had drunk beer with them in their billet many times. He took the two officers into a field, fired into the ground and then led them to the Presbyterian Mission of Dr. John Curtis Crane, who was barricaded in with his wife and four other missionaries...
...representative of a united nation, and those who criticize and those who attack his policies will be divisive forces, seeking to undermine the united efforts of the nation. Is this not authoritarianism wearing the garb of a monk and sweetly-saying Pax Vobiscum! . . . JAMES L. ROHRBAUGH Pastor First United Presbyterian Church Seattle, Wash...
...bring pastors and psychiatrists together (see MEDICINE). Published last week was a memorial to his efforts, titled Psychiatry and Religion (Beacon Press; $3)-15 addresses given last year at Boston's Temple Israel Institute on Religion and Psychiatry. One of the contributors best informed in both fields is Presbyterian Rev. Seward Hiltner, executive secretary of the department of pastoral services of the Federal Council of Churches. Said...
...learning some lessons for the future in the rough & tumble of Illinois politics. Said Stevenson: "If it's true that politics is the art of compromise, I've had a good start; my mother was a Republican and a Unitarian, my father was a Democrat and a Presbyterian. I ended up in his party and her church...
After ten years' work and spending more than $2,000,000 on the project, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. launched a new Sunday-school curriculum, designed to end "widespread religious illiteracy." Pupils will get not the old-style lesson sheets (which they promptly threw away) but a regular textbook each year, building a library to be used and kept at home. Parents will get the same quarterly magazines used by the teachers; their help will be sought to reduce "the 'forgetting curve' between Sundays...