Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati last week, some 60 leading Protestants* met to consider a plan for a united church. The plan, a blueprint for a new organization, was an ingenious paste-up of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational features...
...Presbyteries (Presbyterian) would ordain all ministers. Each presbytery would be made up of a minimum of 20 men; one minister and one layman from each group of ten or more neighboring churches...
...Jesse Wilson, had not ordered its 24 remaining missionaries in China to return, but was "advising" them that the time had come. Said he: "Our guess is that they are going to act on the suggestion." Said Dr. Lloyd Ruland, China Secretary for the Foreign Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.: "Though we haven't actually proposed it, we expect fully half of our remaining missionaries to be out of China by the end of February." Both the Episcopal and Congregational Churches have called for a withdrawal...
Harvard's religious policies came in for vehement criticism by the Rev. Dr. John S. Bonnell in his sermon Sunday at New York's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Dr. Bonnell specifically lashed out at the General Education Report of 1945 which he claimed started a "secularist trend" in American colleges because of its refusal to propose religious instruction in the curriculum...
Editor in chief of the Protestant World is New Jersey-born Robert W. Searle, 56, onetime associate pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and a longtime leader in the city's interdenominational activities. With veteran Newsman James E. Craig, former chief editorial writer of the old New York Sun, he has been working the paper into shape for over a year. Plans call for weekly publication, but the early issues will be on a monthly basis...