Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Beacon, weekly publication of the fundamentalist Bible Presbyterian Church again trained its guns on the U.S. Navy. Four of its eight tabloid-size pages were spattered with editorials, copies of official letters, affidavits concerning a Southern Baptist Navy chaplain who was relieved of active duty "because of his extremely zealous evangelistic inclinations [which were] embarrassing and disquieting to the associates in the Navy...
Damnation! He cited a Presbyterian chaplain who "never taught a class at the Chaplains' School but what he used profanity. On one occasion [when] one of the students was giving a sermon before the class, the student happened to say 'I think,' and at this [the chaplain] blurted out 'Hell! We don't give a damn what you think!' This was much to the amazement of the class...
Eddie Corstorphine, Scottish-born Presbyterian, got a conscientious objector's discharge from the Canadian Navy after four and a half years of war at sea. He had met & married Phyllis Lawrence of Guelph, Ont. She had converted him to Christadelphianism, a 96-year-old. Brooklyn-born faith which does not tolerate killing, prohibits military service "until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth...
...156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 communicants) met in Chicago's neo-Gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church. To a jampacked audience assembled to elect his successor, lean, ascetic-looking, scholarly Henry Sloane Coffin finished his term as moderator with a slam-bang speech...
...moderator is Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, who resembles Woodrow Wilson, has been pastor of Indianapolis' Tabernacle Presbyterian Church since...