Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George W. Lee Memorial Presbyterian Church Winston-Salem...
This week President and Mrs. Eisenhower slipped quietly into the National Presbyterian Church on Washington's Connecticut Avenue. The church's board of sessions met with them in private. Their Christian faith was formally attested. The President, after baptism and confirmation, was received into the congregation. His wife, a Presbyterian by childhood baptism, was received with him. The ceremony was completed at the church's 9 a.m. Sunday service, when the Eisenhowers received communion...
...simple faith, who is sincere in his religious doctrine," said the National Presbyterian's minister, the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, of his new communicant. Eisenhower, he added, had at last "staked down his faith-this is his home church...
Preaching the word in North Korea, Pang Wha II, Presbyterian minister, felt the Communist wrath for the first time in 1945. World War II was barely ended when the Reds drove him from his little parish in Sinuiji at the Yalu. He moved southwest of Pusan. There, in 1948, a gang of South Korean Communists went after him. Hiding in his house, he listened helplessly as the rioters beat his wife for refusing to tell where he was. They beat her until her eyes grew blank, until she could remember nothing but would thenceforth sit all the day staring...
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