Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congregational Christian Churches, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical and Reformed, the Methodist Church, the African M.E. Zion Church, the Colored Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the International Council of Community Churches, the Association for a United Church in America, the Presbyterian Church...
...late Prime Minister Mackenzie King had a particularly knotty government problem to untangle, he would retire to the solitude of his study in the attic of Laurier House. There, before a portrait of his mother that was always softly lighted and graced with fresh flowers and a cross, Presbyterian King made most of his decisions. "The profound things of life," he once explained, "are worked out in quiet and reflection...
...Benjamin J. Anderson of a local Presbyterian church told a fellowship meeting that Princeton is "Jim Crow" in many ways. "Built in the shadow of the University," he said, "the town is as backward in opportunity for colored people as any town I know...
There are already other public buildings named for Harkness, notably the Harkness Tower at Yale and the Harkness Pavilion at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York...
House on a Hill. Horace Underwood I, a Presbyterian, had gone out to Korea first in 1885 and there married a medical missionary. By 1915, when the Underwoods first opened the gates of Chosen college, Korea had become one of the most Christianized nations of the Orient. In time the new college grew to be the second largest university in Korea. Under the Japanese occupation (1910-45), Chosen and a few other Christian schools like it were the only educational institutions in Korea which kept native Koreans as teachers. It became identified with Korean nationalism...