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...Presbyterian Louis H. Evans, 55, is one of the most successful clergymen in the U.S. In his 30 years of pastoral work, he has swept into churches from Pittsburgh to Pomona, Calif, with the kind of contagious enthusiasm that transforms backsliders into church elders, and the kind of organizing ability that soon makes any church deficit an object of purely historical interest...
...twelve years as pastor of Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, he has not only made it the largest in the denomination (present membership: 6,400) but also given the scattered membership a personalized, closely bound organization almost without equal, e.g., there are 325 different societies to which a member of the First Church may belong (TIME...
When Evangelist Graham got to Seoul, he preached for five packed services in the Presbyterian church, then went up to the front just before Christmas to see the troops. The day before Christmas, in a tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after...
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower have chosen the church they will attend in Washington: the grey stone, round-arched National Presbyterian Church at Connecticut and N Street, eight blocks north of the White House. Formerly known as the Church of the Covenant, it is considered one of Washington's more fashionable places of worship, whose pewholders over the years included Presidents Jackson, Pierce, Polk, Grant, Cleveland and Buchanan. Baptist Harry Truman worshiped in its "President's pew" on each opening of Congress. Its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, who served as chaplain to the XXI Corps...
Eisenhower, reared in the Brethren in Christ church, is not a member of any denomination, has recently attended Presbyterian and Lutheran churches...