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Chicago's 1,000-member First Presbyterian Church, oldest Protestant church (founded 1833) in a restless city, stands in what used to be an all-white neighborhood. In the last decade, notably since the 1948 Supreme Court decision against Jim Crow real-estate restrictions, more and more Negroes have settled there. Under Pastor Harold L. Bowman, who had preached hard against the anti-Negro measures, Negro children began coming to First Presbyterian Sunday school, and soon adults followed. Last week, when Pastor Bowman, 67, announced his resignation after 24 years, he announced also that next month integration...
After a week of banquets, speeches and plaque dedications, a Presbyterian minister led his congregation in a special service commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of their church. The week-long observance might not have been remarkable except for the rank of some of those who took part, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to France Amory Houghton, and for the church's location: 65 Quai d'Orsay, Paris. Cabled the President of the U.S.: CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES AS YOU ENTER YOUR SECOND CENTURY OF SERVICE...
King was no preacher, nor did he pretend to any particular piety-at least not until he fell in love with Henrietta Chamberlain, the Presbyterian minister's daughter he finally married. He was not exactly a fugitive from justice, but at eleven he had run away from New York City where his Irish immigrant parents had apprenticed him to a jeweler. He was not an s.o.b.-at least in his biographer's view-but he could cajole the widow and children of a Mexican landowner out of 15,500 acres of grasslands for $300, resell a half interest...
Special Conditions. The dilemma that must be resolved before any genuine progress towards Christian unity can occur was pinpointed best by Theologian Lewis Seymour Mudge, a Presbyterian, writing in the Christian Century: "Our problem no longer centers on the 'divinity of Christ' [but on] the humanity of Christ. Christ became man and died for all men. We know that this is so, but our theologies and our church structures make it appear that he died for only some men or for a curiously fragmented sort of man . . . We are able to say no more than that God became...
Crucial Insight. Though liberal-arts education can never be completely Christian, or Christian education wholly liberal, said Princeton Historian E. Harris Harbison, a Presbyterian, the two are really indispensable to each other. "The goal of the liberal arts is to provide hindsight and foresight [in] this universe of things and events; the part of Christian belief is to provide insight, [which] is of crucial significance for living . . . William James remarked . . . 'When we see all things in God and refer all things to Him, we read in common matters superior expressions of meaning . . .' Here is the essence...