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Prospects seemed a bit brighter for reunion among the divided U.S. Presbyterians.* At the Northern Presbyterians' 163rd General Assembly in Cincinnati last week, the 880 "commissioners" (Presbyterian for delegates) voted for a nine-point program of cooperation among the three major bodies. The plan provides for "open forum" talks among the denominations, joint evangelistic projects, and "full and open discussion . . . among representatives of the three communions before any new work is opened, or any old church closed...
...head their church as moderator in the coming year, the Northern Presbyterians elected a longtime champion of denominational union, Kansas-born Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, 58. A topnotch preacher who started out to be a sanitary engineer, then switched to the ministry and became a chaplain in World War I, he has served as pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church for the past 23 years. In his acceptance speech, Harrison Anderson denounced "the civic rottenness" that is blighting U.S. cities. "Let the Church of Jesus Christ become again the salt," he cried, "to be rubbed in-if necessary...
...Officially established in 1922, the Greek Orthodox archdiocese in the U.S. currently claims 1,000,000 communicants with 320 churches, 500 parochial schools, 320 Sunday schools, one theological school. ¶The appointment of the National Council's first full-time evangelist: the Rev. Charles B. ("Chuck") Templeton, 36, Presbyterian ex-sport cartoonist from Toronto, who in 1946 made a two-month preaching tour of Europe with Evangelist Billy Graham...
Army Chaplain Rudolf Albert Renfer had just finished a Sunday battlefield sermon somewhere in Germany when shrapnel from enemy artillery put him out of World War II. Two years ago, Presbyterian Renfer became professor of church history and missions at nondenominational, fundamentalist Dallas Theological Seminary. But when the Korean war broke out, he began worrying about the chaplaincy again -a branch of the ministry that looked as though it would be around for a long time...
...moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated the day, the year and the hour. To Scottish-born John Witherspoon, Presbyterian theologian and sixth president of the college, the ornate mechanism both illustrated the majesty of the Lord's work and satisfied scientific inquiry...