Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early race for Governor. "I haven't carried enough water to the Elephant," he acknowledged after a glance over the shoulder toward plodding Lieut. Governor W. H. Nicholas, who at 65 has spent more than a generation tending every breed of party animal. Genial Billy Murray, a Presbyterian six-footer with a scoutmaster's look of integrity and energy, made up for lost time by running a handshaking "survey" of voters in all 99 counties, asking the old pros of all factions for the advice they love to give. Some of them fell so in love with their...
...last week began the 3,000,000-member United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.-a merger of the 2,800,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) with the 300,000-member United Presbyterian Church of North America. The new body, the fourth major merger of this ecumenical century,* is the fourth largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.-after the Methodists, Southern Baptists, and the Negro denomination titled National Baptists, U.S.A. The merger was originally intended to include the Southern Presbyterians, but they withdrew from negotiations three years ago under pressure from the ultraconservative churches of the Deep South...
...Supper and sang hymns together in a jubilance of union that moved many of them to tears. Then they buckled down to business, unanimously elected their first Moderator: Ohio-born Dr. Theophilus Mills Taylor, 48, a teacher and architect for four years before studying for the United Presbyterian ministry, now professor of New Testament literature and exegesis at Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary...
...night last week Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, elder of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, addressed a dinner of the board of directors of Union Theological Seminary. "Out in Tennessee there is a plant which turns out bombs," he said. "Here is a plant which turns out ministers of the Gospel. The two seem remote and unrelated. Actually, the issue of our time-perhaps the issue of all our human time-is which of the two outputs will prevail." Then Secretary Dulles, whose son Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest two years ago, watched 179 seminarians get their...
Since 1939, Union has included a Presbyterian seminary within its interdenominational walls; 140-year-old Auburn Theological Seminary, with its own board of directors and a faculty of five, has special responsibility for training Union's Presbyterian students, numbering...