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...Presbyterians, the country's third largest Protestant denomination, were making plans to reunite their splintered sects. In Buffalo last week, Northern Presbyterians (the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.), with 2,300,000 members, held their 161st General Assembly, elected a moderator from the South for the first time since 1834. Assemblymen hoped that Dr. Clifford E. Barbour, pastor of Knoxville's Second Presbyterian Church, might speed a merger with the 660,000 Southern Presbyterians (the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.) who have been on their own since the Civil...
Waiting at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Mrs. Hoffmann talked to another mother whose 18-month-old boy had the same eye disease. "I listened as she told me that there just wasn't any hope for her boy. 'The doctors are going to operate on him but I know it won't do any good,' she told me. There's nothing anyone can do for him.' Then she said the words that shocked me terribly and at the same time made me feel sorry for her. 'Sometimes,' she told...
Outside Looking In. On the right wing of U.S. Protestantism, the Fundamentalist American Council of Churches is the farthest tip. Most of its light and heat emanate from its dynamic founder, strapping Carl McIntire. Born 43 years ago in Ypsilanti, Mich., Carl McIntire became a minister in the Northern Presbyterian church. But his violent accusations of "modernism" and corruption against the leadership of his church soon earned him a painful formal expulsion from the Presbyterian fold. Ever since then, Carl McIntire has been on the outside looking in-and not liking much of what he sees...
First, he joined a newly formed splinter sect, the "Presbyterian Church of America." In less than a year he broke away, to form his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" (present membership about 8,000). In 1941 he founded the American Council of Christian Churches, which now numbers 18 small sects...
...Andrew Hoffman of New Orleans had been told that their seven-month-old twin sons Denny & Kenny were blind, and had been blind from birth. Not giving up hope, the Hoffmans chartered a plane to New York. At Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital they heard good news: Denny had "some vision"; Kenny would undergo an operation...