Word: presbyterian
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McKellar accused Williams of being a Communist sympathizer, a waster of government money (particularly in NYA), and unqualified for the job. Soon McKellar produced a letter from a clergyman charging that Williams, onetime student for the Presbyterian Ministry, had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." Then Williams' religious and political beliefs got a going-over. The Committee rejected his nomination...
Prime mover of the drive for classical church music is cherubic, inexhaustible Dr. Clarence Dickinson, 71, director of the School of Sacred Music at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. He has written or arranged some 500 anthems and chorales, edits the standard Presbyterian Hymnal, has trained some 300 U.S. church music directors. Now, as chairman of the American Guild of Organists' service committee, he spends his spare time telling organists how to needle the clergy into planning services with good music instead of merely "decorating" them with "soul-saving hymns." Dr. Dickinson pours most of his philosophy into...
...Chicago's swank Fourth Presbyterian Church this Easter, worshipers will hear music by Composers Cesar Franck, the late Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sir Edward Bairstow, a widely-recognized English contemporary...
Miss Mac had been born into the late Cleland Boyd McAfee's staunchly Presbyterian Scotch-Irish household in Parkville, Mo. in 1900-last of the Rev. Dr. McAfee's three daughters. She had grown up in an atmosphere of visiting missionaries, company for Sunday dinner, the Bible, St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion. She remembers herself and two sisters as "perfect little snobs...