Word: presbyterian
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...denomination was born last week. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in North America (membership: 251,244) approved plans to merge with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (membership: 2,809,603). The resulting 3,000,000-member body, which will officially begin its existence at a convention in Pittsburgh next May, will be known as the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Only one other major Presbyterian body remains in the U.S.-the southern Presbyterian Church of the U.S. (810,917 members...
...case of Maura Lyons, 16, the Roman Catholic girl who disappeared from her Belfast home after becoming a Presbyterian (TIME, March 18), was closed by a court order that she be returned to her Catholic parents-but on the condition that they do nothing to shake her new Protestant faith. After her conversion last fall, her parents had threatened to put Maura in a convent, whereupon she was smuggled out of Belfast and into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home...
...last time a pastor tried to practice the Anglican ritual in a Church of Scotland kirk, a stout-armed Presbyterian shopwoman named Jenny Geddes hefted the stool she was sitting on and threw it at his head. That was in 1637, in St. Giles Church. Edinburgh. This week the Church of Scotland's General Assembly sat down in Edinburgh to thresh out a proposal that has already provoked an almost equally violent reaction from parishioners, press and clergy. The plan: 1) unite the Established Church of Scotland and the Established Church of England; 2) standardize the administration of their...
Source of the explosive proposal was a committee of 30 Anglican and Presbyterian churchmen, established in 1954 to examine the idea of a merger, after decades of mellowing relations between the two churches. This spring the committee hopefully recalled the uniting of Anglicans. Presbyterians, and other Protestant denominations in South India (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947), unanimously advocated the merger. "Disunity . . ." wrote the committee, "spells a deeply damaging contradiction between message and life . . . The church cannot...
Benjamin F. Wright Ph.D. 25, president of Smith College, will deliver the commencement address at the Radcliffe graduation June 12 in Sanders Theatre. Chaplain for the exercises will be the Rev. John C. MacLeod, of the First Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, Mass...