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...United Methodist Church, three smaller Black Methodist churches, the United and Southern Presbyterian churches, the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ...
...rising spirit of consumerism. Often the individuals are volunteers without any authority to act. But many hospitals are sincerely searching for ways to improve relations with their patients. New York's Mount Sinai Hospital has a staff of five to deal with its patients' nonmedical needs; Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital of Chicago has hired a patient representative to deal with the problems of those using its clinic and emergency room. Few institutions, however, have gone as far as New York Hospital, a 1,000-bed facility associated with Cornell University Medical School. New York...
Impoverished by these laws, Ulster's Catholics were willing to work on farms for far lower wages than the Presbyterian peasantry. At the "Battle of the Diamond" in County Armagh in 1795, Protestant peasants beat up Catholic workers and later that evening founded the Grand Orange Lodge of Ulster. Other Orange lodges soon proliferated and sent howling mobs of Protestants out to brutalize the Catholics. Eventually, the Irish Catholics started terrorist groups of their...
...Like the Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern Presbyterian) is split almost evenly down the middle. At issue among the Southern Presbyterians' 960,000 members is the future of reunion plans with the 3,200,000 members of the United Presbyterian Church, which has grown apart from the Southern church ever since the Civil War. The North-South split among the Presbyterians is exacerbated by differences in theology and de facto racial practices. Blacks in the Northern church recently barred consideration of reunion until at least 1973 because of what they see as lingering bigotry...
...demands approval of three-fourths of the church's 73 presbyteries. But at the denomination's convention last month, a bare majority of Southern liberals pushed through a plan to "restructure" the church map that could gerrymander the conservative threat out of existence. A conservative magazine, the Presbyterian Journal, charged angrily that "everything important went the way of the world, the flesh and the devil." But last week the denomination's chief executive officer, Stated Clerk James Millard Jr., reminded Southern Presbyterians that their convention had voted to support programs of reconciliation. One resolution, he said, decried...