Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Meyer's check, along with other such contributions, has been forwarded to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 156 Fifth Avenue, New York...
Pulling Power. In Wampsville, N.Y., attendance at the Presbyterian Church tripled after someone unknown to the church elders placed an ad in the Oneida Dispatch: "Wanted: men, women and children to sit in slightly used pews, Sunday mornings, Wampsville Presbyterian Church...
...last twelve years, the Rev. Charles Miles Jones, 46, has been pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church. He is one of the most popular pastors the church has ever had. His short, conversational sermons on basic ethical problems attract such large crowds that an extra service has had to be added to the church's Sunday schedule. He has even built up a following among University of North Carolina undergraduates...
...Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
...Presbyterian churches of the Detroit presbytery, like most other U.S. churches, are divided among white and Negro congregations. At their annual meeting last week, the pastors and elders of the Detroit presbytery decided that church is no place for segregation. After admitting "with regret and shame" that U.S. Presbyterians have not done much in practice to end segregation, the presbytery called on its member churches to bring about "nonsegregation in the life and work of their congregations...