Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though school and hospital cooperated in some degree down the years, they muffed the chance to get into the forefront of medical progress by joining forces when other medical centers began to be set up (e.g., Manhattan's pace-making Columbia-Presbyterian). Yale Graduate Harvey Gushing, later one of the world's most famed neurosurgeons, refused an appointment from his alma mater in 1906 because he thought the school was in the doldrums and would not get out until it teamed up with the hospital...
...chief enemies of the Christian home, as listed by the Rev.-James A. Jones, pastor of Myers Park Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, N.C., in a speech to his city's Parents' League last week: "The multiplicity of civic enterprises . . . Some parents are so involved in the serious business of doing something for the children of the community that they fail to do as they should for the children of their own homes . . . [Even] the church may invade too deeply the interests of a home. Parents have no right to look after the affairs of the church down...
...President Eisenhower's pastor, the Rev. Edward Elson of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, credited Ike with leading "one of the great periods of religious renaissance in our national history." Said he: "There is a fresh naturalness and manliness to prayer ... By his regular participation in Christian worship, by the maintenance of his personal spiritual disciplines and through his public utterances, the President is pointing America to the way of faith...
...grandfadder was de Reverend Barton Dowden, a Presbyterian parson. And he had a great-grandfadder who was a manager of Plantation Vyfuisheid on de West Coast-a pure white...
Independent Presbyterian Church...