Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sermons, wrote with a vigorous accent that attracted big congregations. During World War I he went overseas with the Y.M.C.A., helped to stir up war sentiment as a lecturer for the British Ministry of Information. After the war, Baptist Fosdick was called to Manhattan's rich, influential First Presbyterian Church...
Soon a Fundamentalist Presbyterian group in Philadelphia smelled heresy in Fosdick's sermons, sent word to the New York brethren to cast out the interloper. The battle was noisy. The Presbyterian General Assembly finally suggested a way out: Fosdick might become a Presbyterian. Harry Fosdick refused; he said it would be too much like making the ministry a denominationally "closed shop." His farewell sermon packed the First Church. The closing hymn was "God be with you Till We Meet Again." He had to shake hands for an hour afterwards...
...general school work in preparation for the Ministry was had at the Presbyterian College of South Carolina where he received his A.B. in '26 followed by his work at the Columbia Theological Seminary culminating with the B.D. degree...
Memories of the Past. All these things were in her mind as she lay sick last .month, her will sapped by nervous exhaustion, in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. China and all these struggles weighed on her mind. But gradually she drew strength from a hope-that she would be able to give the U.S. something it had lacked, a clear look into the eyes and at the face of China...
...Bishop Manning had tackled one of his own men from behind; but as usual it turned out that he had broken no rules. Cause: Canterbury had penned a pleasant note to California's retired Bishop Edward L. Parsons commending him for furthering the current plan for Episcopal-Presbyterian unity in the U.S.A. Plump, painstaking Dr. Temple was careful not to "form any judgment" as to the complex plan in question, but declared that unity would be "a very great contribution toward the cause we all have at heart." Bishop Parsons, who has had rough going because of high church...