Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholic. Please see that the enclosed check for $50 reaches the young Presbyterian minister whom you quoted in TIME, Aug. 7-"I am determined to be known in my community as a minister of God first, a Protestant second and a Presbyterian third. ... I am desirous of having the fullest measure of fellowship attainable with Jews and Catholics"-to help with his work for men in the service...
ELIZABETH NORRIS LYNCH Merion, Pa. ¶ TIME forwarded Reader Lynch's $50 check to ex-Army Air Forces Chaplain Ayers, now a Presbyterian pastor in Wilkes-Barre, who says he will use the money to develop an inter-faith committee on "religion and returning service personnel...
...House the picture of Mackenzie King's mother is illuminated like a shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
...onetime Army Air Forces chaplain, now. back in his pastorate, last week told his parishioners how a year in the Army had changed his thinking. Wrote the Rev. Jule Ayers, 33, in a letter to the 850 members of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.'s First Presbyterian Church...
...unit composed of Catholics, Protestants and Jews, I have become more interested in the ties which unite men spiritually than in the influences which divide them. Thus, I am determined to be known in my community as a minister of God first, a Protestant second, and a Presbyterian third. . . . I am desirous of having the fullest measure of fellowship attainable with Jews and Catholics...