Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow students in Princeton Seminary's Class of 1905 felt a trifle awed when Freshman Macartney began setting out on Sundays to preach in nearby churches, wearing a high hat and a black tailcoat. Many of his colleagues have stayed awed ever since. For 47 years, Presbyterian Macartney, singularly unperplexed by theological doubts, scientists' criticism, or the pendulum swing of vogues, has been filling churches by preaching the same Gospel he learned at the Seminary...
...elder Bob La Toilette's office in the Madison courthouse to rehearse his debating speeches. The training helped make him one of the ablest preachers in his church. In 1924, William Jennings Bryan, an orator himself, proposed him for the one-year term as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A...
...exam week, and U.C.L.A. students were concerned with such practical problems as marks and last-minute cramming. But a group of them found time to attend an extracurricular lecture at the religious-conference building. There the Rev. James H. Robinson, a Presbyterian minister, told them about his recent visit to India (TIME, April 28). As a Negro, he had been able to visit places that white Americans seldom see, and he was convinced that the best way to solve India's misunderstandings about the U.S. was through personal meetings and discussion...
...Party. The police dragged him along with them. Minutes later, Luna crawled weakly to the house of a fellow Protestant. "Pray for me," he gasped, "give me water." The police, said Luna, had taken him a little distance down the road, and stabbed him in the chest. Shortly afterward, Presbyterian Luna died...
...week the Evangelical Confederation of Colombia* published the news of Luna's death. Elsewhere in Colombia last month, Protestant investigators checked off 20 other cases of violence against non-Catholics. In three years there have been hundreds more. Twenty-five Protestant missionaries and communicants have been killed. Wrote Presbyterian Life's Henry McCorkle, after a trip to Colombia this year to investigate: "The situation in Colombia makes the much-publicized persecutions in Spain seem mild as a May breeze...