Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evenings at dinner the Stimsons usually have guests. The Presbyterian Secretary of War, quietly but firmly pious, says grace. As a man must, who rises at 6, he turns in by n 130. Before midnight Woodley drops into darkness...
...King McClure, decided the federation should have a religion department-something unique for a run-of-the-mill agricultural cooperative. Its project No. 1 was the Lord's Acre Plan, and its head was and is Mr. McClure's brother-in-law, the Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Presbyterian missionary and prep-school chaplain (Lawrenceville, Andover...
...biggest Presbyterian church in the world (First Church, Seattle, 6,920 members) last week ended a 17-month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...
...only a poor Presbyterian pastor and none too familiar with Oliver W. Gilpin's Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Frankly I do agree with him that I too prefer to have the President "blessed" rather than merely given "wisdom." We Presbyterians ask that God may "look (upon him) with favor . . . imbue (him) with the spirit of wisdom, goodness, and truth...
Abuse of National Sovereignty. Delegates applauded a speech by John Foster Dulles, famed Wall Street lawyer and potent Presbyterian layman: "This system of dividing the surface of the earth among some 60 nations, and allowing each to do what it pleases, has become as obsolete as the unregulated public utility. . . . The sovereignty system is no longer consonant either with peace or justice. It is imperative that there be transition to a new order . . . for the present system is rapidly encompassing its own destruction. The real problem is not whether there will be transition, but whether transition can occur without violent...