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This is the favorite text of the Rev. Stanley Frederick George, and some of the members of his First Presbyterian Church of San Bernardino, Calif, have wished on occasion that he didn't put quite so much emphasis on doing. But last week Pastor George was riding high: between him and the Kefauver committee, "San Berdoo's" bawdyhouses and poker parlors were facing an indeterminate period of hard times...
Guilt & Sex. Dr. Menninger sees "value in group assemblages and some kind of formal ritual. As a lifelong Presbyterian, I am not a genuflector but I respect it as one of several simple maneuvers which have the same meaning of reverence . . . The mutual stimulation, reinforcement and encouragement that the individuals of a group receive from one another are well known to psychology, and the effect of a common relationship to a leader-pastor, rabbi or priest-has been carefully examined by many scientists, including Freud. Singing together has so great and obvious a value in furthering interpersonal linkages and enthusiasm...
...fall. Students in this year's freshman class come from 40 states, (Alabama, Idabo, and Nevada haven't sent anybody to Smith for four years), their parents represent 67 varieties f income; some 55 percent come from private schools; over a third are Episcopalian, 94 are Jewish, 76 are Presbyterian, 62 Roman Catholic, and 59 Congregational. Some 90 or so others are split among several faiths. The variety show element is ever present...
Hardest-hit denomination was the Presbyterian Church in Korea, with 247 pastors lost (136 in South Korea, 111 in the North). Roman Catholics, according to the compilation, lost 80 Korean priests and nuns; Methodists, 55 pastors; Holiness Church, six pastors; Anglican Church, six priests; Salvation Army, four officers; Y.M.C.A., eight secretaries; Y.W.C.A., one secretary...
...Episcopalian mother kept him close to the church. "Hank" Sherrill went to boarding school at Hotchkiss and then, at 16, to Yale. By his junior year, he had decided to enter the ministry. One of Sherril's greatest influences at Yale, as well as throughout his life, was Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, one of America's most unity-minded churchmen...