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...movement. On the World Council of Churches he is a member of three of the top committees. On the National Council of Churches, of which he is a past president, he is a member of the General Board. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the World Presbyterian Alliance...
...Southern Presbyterian Church last week marched boldly up to pronouncing disapproval of capital punishment-and then got hung up on a point of order. A committee that had worked for a year recommended the new stand to the church's annual assembly in Dallas, only to have a Georgia clergyman point out that the answer to Question 136 of the Larger Catechism ("What sins are forbidden in the Sixth Commandment?") exempts the taking of life for "public justice, lawful warfare" or just defense." Embarrassedly, the delegates backed off, and the death penalty remains Presbyterian policy...
A.H.S. was started almost 40 years ago by Foster McGaw, the no-nonsense son of a Presbyterian minister. McGaw had $30,000 in capital, and paid the lawyer who drew up his corporation papers with a share of stock worth $100. Last week, with A.H.S. stock selling around 94 after a series of splits (another 3-for-1 split is due May 19), the lawyer's $100 fee has pyramided to $235,000. McGaw himself, now 64, has amassed a $35 million fortune...
...directed by representatives of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, The Church of England, The Church of Scotland, The Congretional Union of England and Wales, The Council of Churches for Wales, The London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, The Methodist Church of Great Britain, The Presbyterian Church of England, The United Council of Christian Churches and Religious Communions in Ireland, The British and Foreign Bible Society, and The National Bible Society of Scotland. New York, 1961, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press...
...Time to Prune. The Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary has also upped its standards, says Dean of Students Dr. Edward Stein. "We offer a five-to-ten-year debt and no salary to pay it off with when a student is through school, while industry offers a half to a full salary all the way through school. The result is a tougher, more dedicated kind of student. The bulk of today's students will be better ministers. This is the time to prune, not scoop in everything...