Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Frederic Rogers Kellogg lectures at the Cambridge (Mass.) Episcopal Theological School. His subject: preaching. Last week the lectures were published under the title. The True and Lively Word (Scribner; $2.50). "They are offered." writes Cleland in his fore word, "as an ecumenical gesture, delivered to Episcopalians by a Presbyterian who works [at Duke] for Methodists...
...Cavert was a small-town boy, son of a farmer-businessman of Charlton, N.Y. (pop. 100). After Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., he headed for Union Theological Seminary, graduated summa cum laude in 1915, and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church. His first ecumenical job came two years later: assistant secretary of the General Wartime Commission of the Churches...
...Trueblood's job is technically a new one, but for the past three years Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney, minister emeritus of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., has served as full-time religious consultant to U.S.I.A. with the help of an inter-faith council...
...Barry Morely, who has been haunting G & S productions at Harvard long enough to be of proven worth, the cast is amazingly lusty and pleasant to hear. Furthermore, it shows great initiative and skill in presenting Trial By Jury as a curtainraiser. Under the banner of the Congregational-Presbyterian Student Fellowship most of the same group that has supported Morely in other productions is on hand. They all know their business, and make it a pleasure for the audience...
...example of the social change: on Aug. 13, 1906, Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment rode into Brownsville, Texas, a hotbed of racial disorder, shooting into homes where people lay sleeping, killing a bartender, wounding a policeman. Brownsville did not forget quickly-but last year the First Presbyterian Church of Brownsville invited Negroes from a nearby air base to attend any or all of its services, right along with whites...