Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday morning the Deweys attended services at interdenominational Christ Church, located in an old Victorian meeting hall. They heard the Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Lankier, a Presbyterian, preach: "We do not have the right to be smug. We cannot cure evil by ourselves, but we can by ... working with...
...Angeles Presbytery finally took the bull by the horns: Dr. Stewart P. MacLennan, who married Lano & Bob Topping last April-an un-Presbyterian three days after Bob's divorce-would presently be subjected to a formal rebuke, decided the elders...
...Presbyterian minister, he went to Princeton (class of '04), studied law at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. After he had hung out his shingle in Pittsburgh, he scraped up $5,000 for an oil driller's rig and took a lease on some property not five miles from home. With beginner's luck, he struck. Since then he has followed the wildcatters from western Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He made a fortune, lost most of it in the 1929 crash, returned to the law practice he had never quite abandoned...
...Seattle, representatives of the northern Presbyterian church (called the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) met for their 160th General Assembly. Church union was the principal subject-not with the Episcopalians (that is at present virtually a dead letter), but with the Presbyterians south of the Mason & Dixon line who broke away from the northern body during the Civil War. Assemblies of both churches will not vote on union until next year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected...
...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan said he had not realized that he had violated Presbyterian constitutional law by officiating at the fourth marriage of Cinemactress Lana Turner and Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. He had been much impressed, he said, by Miss Turner's "sincerity and the depth of feeling in her . . . There is a spiritual quality in that woman ... I became convinced that they . . . wanted to break with the past and put their marriage on a Christian basis." Since Minister Mac-Lennan admits violating the rules, a presbytery judicial commission will not have...