Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower have chosen the church they will attend in Washington: the grey stone, round-arched National Presbyterian Church at Connecticut and N Street, eight blocks north of the White House. Formerly known as the Church of the Covenant, it is considered one of Washington's more fashionable places of worship, whose pewholders over the years included Presidents Jackson, Pierce, Polk, Grant, Cleveland and Buchanan. Baptist Harry Truman worshiped in its "President's pew" on each opening of Congress. Its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, who served as chaplain to the XXI Corps...
...suburb of Indian Hill (pop. 2,090), both the Presbyterians and the Episcopalians (including Senator Robert A. Taft) wanted churches of their own, but felt they were too few to build two churches and support two pastors. Together, in 1947, they organized the Indian Hill Presbyterian Church and the Indian Hill Episcopal Church (joint membership: 404), with an Episcopalian as minister. Fortnight ago, as the seal of their fellowship, Indian Hill's congregation dedicated a new $300,000 church building-the first U.S. church ever to be built by a combined Episcopal and Presbyterian congregation as a common effort...
...down-at-the-heel West Cincinnati, the members of the West Cincinnati Presbyterian Church and St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, faced with similar problems, united in 1945. Now, with a combined membership of 200, they meet in the West Cincinnati church (now called St. Barnabas') with a Presbyterian, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin, as minister. The church is also interracial; about a fifth of its members are Negroes...
...congregations function in slightly different ways. Indian Hill holds Presbyterian and Episcopal services on different Sundays; St. Barnabas' uses a simplified liturgy at all its services. New members are received into both denominations, i.e., the bishop lays his hands on the confirmand in the Episcopal rite of confirmation, and the pastor then extends "the right hand of Christian fellowship," Presbyterian fashion. Both churches give part of their revenues to Episcopal and Presbyterian church agencies...
Although converted to Christianity in 1929, Presbyterian Muto, 48, did not begin to practice his religion seriously until after World War II. Shaken by Japan's defeat and his part in the Avar, he became a minister, as he said, "to atone for my sins." He made a name for himself as the editor of the weekly Christian News and, in 1950, the Rev. Toyohiko Kagawa, one of Japan's most famed Christian leaders, suggested that Muto try his hand at retranslating the Bible. He spent two years working from the Japanese version, checked with Greek, Latin...