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...Democratic Convention began, the leader in the race for the presidential nomination was a man who kept insisting that he was not a candidate. All week long, the pressure on Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson steadily increased. On Sunday, when the governor attended Chicago's fashionable Fourth Presbyterian Church, he was the target of a sermon against indecision by the Rev. Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson. Dr. Anderson's theme was "How Men Know God's Will"; his conclusion: "One must...
...almost five years the northern Presbyterians (membership: 2,500,000) have been trying to build their new fortnightly Presbyterian Life into a journal of wide church appeal. With a $160,000 annual subsidy from church funds, the editors turned out a newsy, well-written publication which manages to cover developments inside the church without neglecting issues of broader Christian interest, e.g., the Point Four program, the problems of church-state relationships, the persecution of Protestants in Colombia. Until two years ago, however, circulation hung around the 80,000 mark, about par for a religious paper in the U.S. but scarcely...
...elder Bob La Toilette's office in the Madison courthouse to rehearse his debating speeches. The training helped make him one of the ablest preachers in his church. In 1924, William Jennings Bryan, an orator himself, proposed him for the one-year term as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A...
Orthodoxy & Battlefields. Moderator Macartney had led the fight of Presbyterian fundamentalists (he prefers the term "orthodox") to oust the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, leading theological modernist, from the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church. Attracted by Macartney's reputation, Pittsburgh Presbyterians asked him, in 1927, to take over the ministry of their own First Church, long one of the most influential in U.S. Presbyterianism...
...four sons became ministers. The others: the Rev. J. Robertson Macartney, pastor emeritus of the Palm Springs (Calif.) Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Albert J. McCartney, pastor emeritus of Washington's National Presbyterian Church; the late Rev. Ernest McCartney of Los Angeles...