Word: presbyterian
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...last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man's guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the whale catch, caused recurrent famine years. So in 1892, a notable famine year, a Presbyterian missionary named Sheldon Jackson, backed by Quaker funds, undertook an experiment in practical ecology, which is the science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured...
...Last Sunday morning in the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio, I preached a sermon from two texts: Lincoln's "With malice toward none" and Christ's "Love your enemy and pray for them that persecute you." . . .To my amazement I have never had a congregation respond with so many who have earnestly gripped my hand and said, "How we have waited for someone to say just that...
...First Presbyterian Church...
...Avenue, Mulberry Street and thereabouts. In the '305-third decade of his reign-Ed Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town where the rich, old Second Presbyterian Church could transact its godly business within bottle's throw of a brothel, a saloon, a gambling joint and the Negroes' steamy Beale Street...
...officially the big U. S. churches are not yet so sure of their ground. Baptists and Unitarians got through their spring assemblies without perceptibly committing themselves. Last week the Presbyterians, holding general assembly in Rochester, N. Y., condemned aggressors, but declined to throw their church's "moral and economic weight" against Europe's present aggressors, spoke up for the rights of Presbyterian conscientious objectors...