Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick was brought up to become nothing less than a repository of Southern traditions and an exemplar of Southern character. Father was a Presbyterian and mother a Methodist, a strict disciplinarian who wielded the peachtree switch and leather strap on the children "until the blood came." Twice, before Dick was 13, the Bible was read aloud in family meetings-all the way through. Well Dick learned the old family stories-great-grandfather had owned a plantation and 35 or 40 slaves; grandfather had his cotton mill on Sweetwater Creek burned down and his slaves set free by Sherman...
...implement his church clause," said the conservative Johannesburg Star, "he would make an eternal martyr of the first person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally indefensible," the Baptists announced their conviction that the government's policy "had no sanction in the New Testament and was diametrically opposed to the teaching of Christ," and the Methodist Church joined in criticism...
...July 1 spread on "The Nine Justices" lists Baptist Warren, Baptist Black, Presbyterian Douglas, Unitarian Burton, Presbyterian Clark, Presbyterian Harlan, Roman Catholic Brennan, Methodist Whittaker and Indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Is Justice Frankfurter a Northern, Southern, Missouri or United Indefatigable...
...ARTHUR HANNA Oak Hill and Horeb Presbyterian Churches Oak Hill, Ohio...
...facts about the postwar surge of religion in the U.S. has been the caliber of its critics-the most telling jeers have not come from the village atheists but from the men of God. And of all the vineyards suburbia draws the most unremitting hail of clerical belittlement. One Presbyterian in a grey flannel suit who has long fumed at these attacks, behind his paper on the 7:28 from Bound Brook, N.J., is Personnel Manager George S. Odiorne of Manhattan's American Management Association. In the current issue of Presbyterian Life he rises to the defense of suburban...