Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Rev. Douglas Cedarleaf, 31, decided to take a hand. First, he preached a sermon, "Vandalism in Throop Street," to his Erie Chapel Presbyterian Church (white) congregation (which included the Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible...
...Congressional battle royal over Henry Wallace almost drowned out the scuffle over the appointment of long, lanky Aubrey Williams as Rural Electrification Administrator. But last week the scuffle was still going on: it had shifted from politics to religion. In a telegram to Tennessee's Senator McKellar (a Presbyterian), the Rev. Joseph Broady (a Presbyterian) of Findlay, Ohio charged that Williams was "utterly unworthy for any Government position" because he had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." (This apparently referred to the fact that after being helped through college by the Presbyterian Church, Williams was not ordained a minister, instead...
When General MacArthur's forces rescued Dr. Stevenson from Bilibid and put him back to work, his first patient was the Japanese lieutenant who had jailed him. The man needed an operation for a bullet wound. Dr. Stevenson, a Presbyterian medical missionary in peacetime, performed the operation successfully, with all his skill...
...Christian Century under the general title: 'Can Catholicism Win America?' [TIME, Jan. 22], These articles bristle with so many false and misleading assumptions and implications . . . that they are bound to prove highly inflammatory. Adding fuel to the flames, Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, recently began . . . a . . . crusade [TIME, Jan 29]. The campaign is gathering momentum. If it continues to do so . . . it will not be long before the hooded figures and flaming crosses will again appear in our midst...
...schooling of church ushers. This year 40 adult students took the Omaha ushering course, learning their art from practical experts. At their commencement last week, the principal speaker was earnest, efficient A. & P. Sales Manager J. S. Handy. Every Sunday as head usher at Des Moines' Westminster Presbyterian Church, he "competes with the Devil" of congregational boredom...