Word: presbyterian
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Last week the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (see below) voted to ordain women, but left the final decision on the matter up to the local presbyteries. Moreover, the cause of the distaff dominae got a new boost from Britain. The Rev. Elsie Chamberlain, 45, tall, dark and handsome Congregationalist minister, was unanimously elected chairman of the Congregational Union - top job in British Congregationalism...
...Angeles, 905 voting "commissioners" of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (northern) turned out for its 167th General Assembly, representing 2,658,903 members and 256 presbyteries. Without a dissenting voice, the delegates approved a statement of the church's Permanent Commission deploring the Roman Catholic "trend to exalt the figure of the Virgin Mother to the office of associate partner in the work of redemption." This development, said the statement, "has widened the breach between the Roman Catholic Church and all other Christian communions...
...believe. Raising the price of prostitution does not make it the equivalent of love. Is our industrial discontent not in fact the expression of a hunger for a work life that has meaning in terms of higher and more enduring spiritual values?" What the modern worker needs, according to Presbyterian Ohmann, is "skyhooks" to lift up his work-"something to believe in ... that will give meaning...
...daughter of two former slaves and one of 17 children, she was born in a log cabin near Mayesville, S.C. At nine she could pick as much as 250 lbs. of cotton a day; at eleven she began her daily five-mile trudge to school at a small Presbyterian mission. At 15, she boarded a train for the first time in her life and set off for the Scotia Seminary in Concord, N.C., and later to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. There she found herself the only Negro in a sea of strangers. "White people's eyes pierced...
Though the varsity's record is 10-7, it has dropped but two matches to northern teams--Williams and Princeton. The Crimson has lost to North Carolina three times and to Presbyterian twice, while beating Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and Army by sizable margins...