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...Samuel Dacke Harkness, 66, grew up in a background where theology was orthodox and strict. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, young Sam earned a doctor's degree from Missouri Valley College and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1908. But his experiences in the ministry soon began to jar loose some of the orthodox rivets in his Presbyterianism...
...Forever Creative." Such views soon tagged him as a liberal: Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan once unsuccessfully opposed Harkness' appointment to a high office in the Presbyterian General Assembly as "a dangerous heretic." But Dr. Harkness revels in his unorthodoxy. With his wife he is planning a book to be titled The Confessions of Two Conscientious Hypocrites. Said he recently: "I don't think anyone can give you a religion ... I think anyone's religion, to be real and workable, has to be self-originating, forever creative. The church is merely a tool to be used-first...
...charge was religious persecution. It was made by Treasurer-elect Daniel M. Pattison of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) in a letter last week to U.S. Senators and the State Department. Objects of the charge were the supporters of the Conservative Party now in power in the South American republic of Colombia. During the past year or so, said Pattison, the Roman Catholic Conservatives had been systematically trying to drive the Protestants out by beatings, bombings, arson and intimidation...
Pattison listed a round dozen "recent" incidents, gathered in a week spent in Colombia inspecting hospitals, schools and other works of the 39 Presbyterian missionaries now there. The Presbyterians, he said, had not been the only ones mistreated. Wrote he: "The Lutheran Church, which, with the Presbyterians, has the largest United States mission representation in Colombia, is ready to add its expressed protest to the religious persecution being experienced by Protestants under the present regime. The Scandinavian Alliance missionaries have been forced to leave-fleeing to Venezuela. Smaller groups have experienced at least as severe persecution...
Naked & Alone. Washington's Mount Adams was his first love and "its memory has been the most haunting of all." At five, young Douglas was standing choked with tears at the new grave of his father, a Presbyterian minister, when he happened to notice mighty Mount Adams (elev. 12,307 ft.) in the distance. His tears stopped; from that moment "Adams subtly became a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength...