Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puny stage with poor lighting, the Student Fellowship of the Congregational-Presbyterian Church is giving a smash-bang performance of The Pirates of Penzance. Barry Morley, in the lead, has a fine voice that, if not overly dramatic, is always well controlled. His sense of comie timing and fast pace complete an excellent...
...week's end, he seemed fully recovered; he attended services at Augusta's Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, and then hied himself back to the course and played 18 holes with Senator Bob Taft, newly arrived for a two-day visit. The President was mum about the outcome, but fairly exuded satisfaction afterward: "I'll tell you this-I made my best score . . ." Champion-Emeritus Bobby Jones let the cat out of the bag: the President, he reported, had shot an 86, thus breaking 90, as far as anyone knew, for the first time since Inauguration...
...Other U.S. Presbyterian bodies: Cumberland Presbyterian Church (membership: 80,000), Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church (30,000), Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (25,000), Orthodox Presbyterian Church (8,000), two Reformed Presbyterian churches (5,000 and 1,500), Bible Presbyerian Church (no statistics available), Associate Presbyterian Church of North America...
...plan calls for a new united church : the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Its rules of administration would follow the pattern set by the three member churches, and its first officers would be elected by a combined General Assembly of all three churches meeting together. A 50-man commission would then integrate the administrative boards of the three churches. Similarly, mission work and church educational institutions would be turned over to the administration of the new united church...
...General Assemblies of all three churches like the look of the plan, it will be sent to local presbyteries, which will vote on it sometime in 1954. That is where the plan will be put to its severest test: two-thirds of the presbyteries of the Northern and United Presbyterian churches would have to accept it, three-fourths of the Southern Presbyterian presbyteries...