Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Anglican and Free Church leaders offered a moderate, humane program for a Christian postwar Europe within a framework of "world security." Warned the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, Scotland's Presbyterian Moderator John Baillie, Free Church Moderator Roy D. Whitehorn: "We can not assume that defeat of tyranny will in itself suffice to establish peace, well-being and liberty...
Said Bishop Chen, speaking at an interdenominational service in Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...Brooklyn (at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church) last week a 53-year-old missionary and his 25-year-old twin sons were together ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. They were Dr. Horace H. Underwood (of the typewriter Underwoods), who was repatriated two years ago from Korea, and his sons, James and John, graduates of Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Underwood has had no theological training. His 32 years' work as a veteran missionary in Korea kept him "too busy to be ordained." But he has a Ph.D. from New York University, and Presbyterian usage permits the ordination of men with...
...Underwood is now working on missionary problems at Manhattan's Presbyterian Church headquarters, will return to Korea after the war. Of the two sons ordained with him, James will soon become a U.S. naval chaplain, John plans to return to Korea with his father...
Harrison Spangler has few close friends and few whole-souled enemies. A man of determined moderation, his unexceptional life has not even been exceptionally dull. A congenital Republican, he is also an Elk, a Mason, a Presbyterian, a Sigma Nu. He smokes cigarets absently, drinks Scotch socially, golfs casually...