Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are seven of us Presbyterian missionaries in this station who are ex-servicemen, but if Chaplain Ivan Bennett thinks the "new look among G.I.s . . . is a spiritual...
...farewell sermon to his congregation at Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, Pastor Louis Evans, now "minister-at-large" for the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (TIME, Jan. 12), observed a trend: "There is a deep, quiet nostalgia for God creeping on a tired and frustrated humanity . . . America has gone religiously through three eras. The religion of our grandfathers was an experience; the religion of our fathers was a tradition; the religion of the sons had become a convenience. It looks as though we are now stepping into an era that may lead us back to the experience of God again . . . Governors...
Socialism Second. After a three-year course at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary on a scholarship, Bechtel went' to Butte in 1913 as pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church there. Salary: $75 a month. His angry pro-labor sermons won him the support of the Socialists, who ran him for state senator. Though he refused to campaign, he won anyway. Senator Bechtel introduced bills for adult education and workmen's compensation and against capital punishment. But when he introduced a bill for Prohibition, the Socialists dropped...
Colonel Edwin S. George, a rich, nonchurchgoing Presbyterian businessman (real estate) with heart trouble, already had the plans drawn up for the church he wanted to build on his estate. Bechtel agreed to become the first pastor of the Kirk-in-the-Hills...
...Gadsden, Ala., the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (membership: 83,000, mostly in the South) voted 2 to i to admit Negroes to the church's graduate school of theology at McKenzie, Tenn...