Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good lived for many years in South Cameroons, West Africa as a Presbyterian missionary. Drum thumping is as familiar to him as the clack of a telegraph key. An ordinary drum, he says, can be heard three or four miles by day, ten or 15 miles at night. "I know of one exceptional drum that has been heard 25 miles, though its messages could no longer be understood...
...Hill was a Texas Ranger 50 years ago, and he is chaplain of the Texas Rangers today. He left the saddle, the mesquite, the Rangers' campfire and their dogged trail of the lawless to become Texas' best-loved Presbyterian minister. . . . For years he was a missionary to Korea, his two boys and his wife accompanying...
Some while ago he resigned a successful pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio to retire to a home on the headwaters of the Guadalupe River at Hunt. . . . Just a few months ago he came down to Floresville to bury his lifelong friend and comrade-in-arms, Captain Will Wright of the Texas Rangers. . . . The great crag of a man, in his closing prayer, with a level voice directed the thoughts of his listeners to "Cap" Wright's son-on foreign service along with many another Texas boy. You might never have known, except perhaps...
...quiet Jersey hamlet of West Milford last week, a small-town rumpus took on a national significance. The First Presbyterian Church (membership: 176) decided that the symbol of the church takes precedence over the symbol of the state. Despite the vigorous objections of Police Chief Somers Stites, the Presbyterians kept the Christian flag to the pastor's right and the Stars & Stripes to his left in their little white clapboard church...
...United Presbyterian this week, H. S. Nesbitt, a missionary in distracted India, attacked Mahatma Gandhi-for worshiping cows...