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...Presbyterian, he attends weekly services, teaches a ninth-grade Sunday-school class, has a picture of Jesus on his office wall. He worries lest his religious zeal be taken for political haymaking, guards against that possibility by extreme measures; e.g., he slips out of a service during the benediction to avoid church-step handshaking, insists that he be known to his Sunday-school class as Mr. (not Governor) Langlie. He neither smokes nor drinks, but is undisturbed if others do. In his eyes the ultimate evil is immorality, especially in politics. Says a longtime friend: "If there is an unavoidable...
British-born Dr. Welch not only pioneered the nonalcoholic Communion service that has become standard in U.S. Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches, he also founded the nation's processed fruit juice industry. This week his Welch Grape Juice Co. will again make industrial history. The company (1955 net: $37 million) will be turned over to the National Grape Cooperative Association under a unique profit-sharing plan in which the company has virtually financed its own sale (for $28 million) to the 4,265 farmers who supply it with grapes...
...Stevenson is a member of a Presbyterian church in Lake Forest, near his Libertyville farm, but he has maintained his longtime affiliations with the Unitarians, who have no church in the Libertyville area...
...Persi chetti is also editor of the small music publishing house Elkan-Vogel, which has published his paperbound Hymns and Responses for the Church Year ($1). An eclectic churchgoer himself, Persichetti expects his hymnal to appeal to adven turous congregations of all Protestant denominations. Choir directors at Lu theran, Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches have already indicated interest...
...first the mothers of Moroka did not know what had happened. They looked up to see the children skipping and dancing about like corn on a hot pan, then, as their mothers gaped from their doorways, the kids streamed into the brand-new Presbyterian church. But one stayed back long enough to explain: "They're following a little man no bigger than a boy-he's got hair all over his body and a long white beard, and claws instead of fingers." The mothers' hearts froze. For this, they knew at once, was Tikoloshe-the evil sprite...