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...fact was that Rocky, only a couple of months ago the far-in-front runner for next year's G.O.P. nomination, was still hearing echoes about his remarriage. A Presbyterian Church board last week formally censured the minister who performed the ceremony-on the ground that Happy had been divorced less than five weeks before, and church law requires a minister to get permission from his superiors before marrying anyone divorced less than a year. In an editorial entitled "Thy Neighbor's Wife," The Living Church, an Episcopal weekly, declared that it was doubtful whether Rockefeller...
...core of the racial situation in the United States lies in the all-white residential communities that circle our cities," said the Rev. Marshal Scott of Chicago, moderator of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. "It is precisely in those neighborhoods where Presbyterianism flourishes that the center of the evil lives...
Moved by such forthright oratory, the 840 commissioners (delegates) at the 175th Presbyterian General Assembly in Des Moines last week overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the church constitution, declaring that Presbyterians "are obligated to welcome into fellowship" anyone who desires to share in their worship, and that refusal on the basis of "color, origin or worldly condition" causes "a scandal to the Gospel." With less unanimity, they went on to take a strong stand, roughly like the U.S. Supreme Court's, against Bible-reading and prayers in public schools...
Cash Backing. The United Presbyterian Church, whose membership of 3,277,787 is less than 5% Negro, has traditionally been opposed to racial segregation. This year the commissioners, as one of them said, "put their money where their mouth is." They unanimously voted to set up a commission on religion and race, with a first-year budget of $500,000. It will work with other denominations in stamping out segregation in churches, assist individual ministers in combatting prejudice among parishioners. The assembly's stand on race, exulted the Rev. Edler Hawkins, a Negro and pastor of St. Augustine...
...young Presbyterian minister Henry Pitney Van Dusen wrote a congratulatory letter to his friend and mentor, Henry Sloane Coffin, newly elected president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. In it, Van Dusen, a recent past president of Union's student body, innocently offered his assistance to Coffin in any matter concerning the students. Although Van Dusen had no thoughts of an academic career, Coffin with mistaken shrewdness concluded that the young cleric was fishing for a job. Later, Coffin wrote Van Dusen, urging him to take an instructorship at Union, and made the offer so warmly courteous that...