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...Seattle, representatives of the northern Presbyterian church (called the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) met for their 160th General Assembly. Church union was the principal subject-not with the Episcopalians (that is at present virtually a dead letter), but with the Presbyterians south of the Mason & Dixon line who broke away from the northern body during the Civil War. Assemblies of both churches will not vote on union until next year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected...
Last week in Edinburgh, where, stern John Knox once thundered against the impiety of 16th Century non-Presbyterian queens,-some Scots were up to their favorite game of censuring English morals. Their targets: Princess Elizabeth and husband Philip...
...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan said he had not realized that he had violated Presbyterian constitutional law by officiating at the fourth marriage of Cinemactress Lana Turner and Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. He had been much impressed, he said, by Miss Turner's "sincerity and the depth of feeling in her . . . There is a spiritual quality in that woman ... I became convinced that they . . . wanted to break with the past and put their marriage on a Christian basis." Since Minister Mac-Lennan admits violating the rules, a presbytery judicial commission will not have...
Many of you were moved by the story (TIME, Feb. 16) of Ye Yun Ho, ardent young graduate of Korea's Presbyterian Theological Seminary, to send in contributions (or ask where they could be sent) to help him build his church for the scavengers living off of the city dump at the outskirts of Seoul. Recently, TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau chief, Carl Mydans, visited Presbyterian Ye and airmailed the photographs and the account of him below...
...Communism is a response to the failures of Christians." With this warning against Christian self-righteousness, Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary prefaces an analysis of the conflicts between Christianity and Communism. In the current Presbyterian Tribune, Congregationalist Bennett points out two major differences between the two outstanding 20th Century faiths...