Word: presbyterian
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Position Taken. "You know," Ed Martin once remarked, "there's never been anything colorful about me. I've just had to work like the devil." This is an accurate appraisal. The most colorful thing about him is his Army cussing. When the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa., wanted to make him an elder, he demurred. "I take a highball and cuss a little," he explained. They elected him anyhow. Actually he drinks very little, smokes not at all. His gravelly throat is the result of his gassing...
...commenting upon the proposal for union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches in the United States, TIME'S religion editor might well ponder upon the difference between mating (which produces merely offspring) and marriage in the Christian sense (which produces a family), and better understand the justifiable caution with which many in both churches approach the issue...
Last week the 240-year-old Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) announced that it had broken two records: 1) church membership was at an all-time high of 2,174,530 (an increase of 71,238 over the record enrollment of the fiscal year ending in March 1945); 2) contributions in the last fiscal year hit $67,219,476, or $7,610,461 above the previous year...
...Protestant (undenominational) Christian Century was fed up. It had had great hopes of possible unity between the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. It had bridled when Episcopalians showed signs of reneging on their nine-year-old invitation to Presbyterians to consider union with them. This week, after the Episcopal General Convention at Philadelphia had turned down the report of its Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity (TIME, Sept. 30), the Century let go its safety valve...
...Presbyterian Church is still willing to continue negotiations with the Episcopal Church after that exhibition, they can well claim to represent an essence of Christianity unique in the modern world...