Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invaluable education of Leighton Stuart really began in 1905 when, as a newly married, newly ordained Presbyterian minister, he returned from the U.S. as a missionary to the-country where he had been born, the son of a missionary. After eleven years of teaching the New Testament at the Nanking Theological Seminary, Stuart got the job that really suited him; he became president of China's famed No. i Christian university, American-endowed Yenching...
...world's top authorities on the New Testament is a plain-speaking pipe-smoking Presbyterian minister named Ernest Findlay Scott. For most of his 78 years, English-born Dr. Scott has been writing about Christianity and teaching it. For 19 years he was at Union Theological Seminary, where former colleagues still recall his shyness, forceful lectures...
...their reception Bishop Oxnam was silent last week, said he would first report to the Federal Council's executive committee. But indications were that the Protestant churchmen had come away with high hopes. Said Presbyterian Delegate Dr. John A. Maclean: "We were assured that Mr. Taylor's service as ambassador to the Pope might terminate at an early date, but would certainly terminate with the signing of the peace treaties." To newsmen asking for "confirmation or denial," the White House gave a circumspect "no comment...
Highest average per capita contribution for 1945: the Nazarene Church with $55.79. Lowest: Southern Baptists, with $14.18. The Northern Presbyterian Church, with an average contribution of $27.59, edged out the Episcopalians' $27.22; Southern Presbyterians outdid them both, with $31.90. Average contribution...
...Protestantism is gaining members. It is collecting more money from them, too, and the average contribution for the collection plate is up. Last fortnight Everyone, Presbyterian quarterly, published the United Stewardship Council statistics for 1945.† Reports from 18 top Protestant denominations showed a net membership gain over 1944: 563,866 (2.2%); increase in gifts: $62,997,968 (14.9%); increase in per capita contributions...