Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Presbyterian Church Lynchburg...
...Mild-mannered Presbyterian U.S.A. Chaplain Major John K. Borneman, who served in World War I as an ace flyer, chats about a chaplain's typical experiences. Borneman, from Niagara Falls, carries cigarets, Bibles, toothbrushes to the front and says the men ask for all sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...
...seventh son of a seventh son, Cosmo Lang was born a Presbyterian. In fact, his father was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland-as his brother became in 1935. After winning his M.A. from Glasgow University at 18, he had a brilliant career at Oxford, topped in 1886 with a first class in Modern History and the presidency of the famed Oxford Union (which York held in due course, too). In tending a political career, he studied law in London for the next three years, did not decide to enter the church until just before...
...Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brother Gaston announced a "sweeping national campaign" for wartime prohibition. He gave alcohol a large share of the blame for the fall of France and the Pearl Harbor tragedy, concluded hopefully that "America should soon be dry again, and next time Prohibition will come to stay as a success." Congressional mimeograph machines, by courtesy of Guyer, scattered his message over...
...past I had always felt hesitancy in giving for China Relief. I was of the opinion that what mattered a few million more or less Chinese, that their situation was pretty hopeless anyway. I had contributed to our church (Presbyterian) mission work for schools and medical work, in the belief that education of the natives to work out their own salvation was the solid foundation which merited our support...