Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presbyterian. Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, Moderator: "The ministers of our communion feel as do most patriotic citizens, 'that while we have longed and prayed for peace consistent with honor,' nevertheless it is our duty as a nation to defend the lives and fortunes of our people...
Died. Dr. Henry Winters Luce, 73, retired Presbyterian Missionary to China, father of TIME Editor Henry R. Luce; in Haverford, Pa. Lifelong friend of China, largely responsible for the establishment of Shantung's first Christian University and Peking's Yenching University, he was a dynamic worker for the political, cultural and religious education of the Chinese. He died in his sleep on the day the U.S. and China became allies against Japan...
...Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against the missionaries. Four days after the arrest at Harbin, the Japanese hustled the trio-Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Byram, the Rev. Bruce Hunt-500 miles south to Antung, on the Korean border. Probable reason: to make them testify at the trial of the Korean Christians arrested for refusing to take part in State Shinto rites. Secondary reason: to frighten remaining U.S. missionaries out of Manchukuo...
...Presbyterian Church will change its form of government and get itself a real chief executive if the denomination's last moderator has his way. Wrote Dr. William Lindsay Young last week in the Presbyterian Tribune: "The Presbyterian Church . . . feels leaderless . . . because of our organizational scheme. The moderator is not an official spokesman. His office is looked upon as purely honorary, lasting for but a brief period of time, and ... by the time he is experienced enough to be of value, his term of office is over...
...Young's solution: create a new office, president of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., elect an executive to it for a five-year period or more to "represent the entire interests of the Church, both material and spiritual...