Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, there was no clear agreement on just what form that hope should take. Many churchmen, notably the Americans, emphasized "practical" action here and now. Said the World Presbyterian Alliance meeting at Princeton (where Hromadka spoke): "Strive to break down racial barriers . . . Promote understanding between classes . . . Provide an opportunity for every man ... to earn a livelihood . . ." Other churchmen, rallying round the eschatological view that sees the Christian hope at the end of the world and not in it, argued that Christianity's place was not primarily in political or ideological battles. Contemplating "the hydrogen and perhaps a cobalt bomb...
Pork Expended. Joe Martin was born 69 years ago in North Attleboro, Mass., across the street from the smithy where his father worked as long as 16 hours a day for $15 a week. Joseph Martin the elder was a Presbyterian of Scots descent; his wife, Catherine Katon Martin (now 93), an Irish Catholic. Some of their eight children were reared as Catholics, some as Presbyterians. Joe, the second child and eldest son, was one of the Presbyterians, but he belongs to no church...
...Princeton Theological Seminary last week, 400 delegates bravely battled the heat and the static in the little receiving sets that picked up the French, German and English translations of what was going on. Whatever it was, they could be sure it was Presbyterian. The 17th General Council of the World Presbyterian Alliance, representing 40 million communicants in 46 countries, was in session. Among other accomplishments, the delegates 1) adopted a new, more centralized constitution to replace the original adopted at London in 1875, 2) gave themselves a breath-taking new name: "The Alliance of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World...
...clear, cool evening last June, Diane and Herbert Rang were married in Los Angeles. After the ceremony at the West Adams Presbyterian Church, the young couple, both of Korean descent, led the way into an adjoining hall for the wedding banquet. There 300 guests sipped fruit punch and consumed platefuls of traditional Korean fare: tuna, popped rice, olives, tea and rice cakes...
Died. The Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, 69, longtime (1921-40) pastor of Hollywood's huge (membership: 6,400) First Presbyterian Church; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Dr. MacLennan hit the headlines briefly in 1948 when he was formally rebuked by the Los Angeles Presbytery for performing the marriage ceremony for thrice-divorced Lana Turner and thrice-divorced Bob Topping, said in his own defense that he was impressed by Lana's "sincerity and depth of feeling...