Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who had been given gift subscriptions: a string of colored cutouts representing 21 departments of the magazine. A collection of these cards now hangs in a small hospital ward in Korea. The man who hung them is Dr. Paul S. Crane, American surgeon and head of the Presbyterian Medical Center in Chonju...
...165th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) met in Minneapolis last week and as its first order of business elected a new moderator: the Rev. Dr. John Alexander Mackay, 64, president since 1936 of Princeton Theological Seminary...
...Inched its way a step further toward union of its 2,500,000-member denomination with the 700,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) and the 220,000-member United Presbyterian Church by approving a plan of union "for study and comment...
Three Hours a Day. Harry Fosdick grew up in Buffalo, the son of a high-school principal who believed that Christianity was more important than sects. He gave young Harry a course in the same conviction by bringing him up a Baptist (by immersion), sending him to a Presbyterian Sunday school, and letting him enroll in a Methodist young people's society. In Colgate University Harry Fosdick encountered Doubt. "I'm building another [universe] and leaving God out," he told his mother. But God got back in through the interstellar space, and in 1901 Fosdick was at Union...
...book, With God in Red China (Harper; $3), and two articles in the Christian Century, Methodist Stockwell described what had happened to him and the choice he had made. In last week's Christian Century, the Rev. Kenneth J. Foreman Jr., 31, a Presbyterian missionary who spent 7½ months under house arrest in Kunming, attacked what he called the "sin" of Missionary Stockwell. He contrasted Stockwell with Vernon Stones, an English Methodist whom the Communists kept in solitary confinement for many months but who refused to make any confession of guilt...