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...City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions began looking for a speaker for the first postwar Joseph Cook Lectures,* Preacher-Educator-Theologian Coffin...
Peters, a Presbyterian of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, usually conducts the daily non-sectarian chapel service, but thinks that one weakness of his administration has been that he did not emphasize it more. "I would have more religion in our school if I could get away with it. It is hard to make the boys understand: You've got to have something better than a good meal in you to face tomorrow's troubles. You can't become religious overnight if you need God tomorrow...
...University Ministry to Students BAPTIST: Rev. Prentiss L. Pemberton; CONGREGATIONAL: Rev. Leonard G. Clough; EPISCOPAL: Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, Rev. John. W. Ellison; FRIENDS: Mr. George A. Selleck; JEWISH: Rabbi Harry Essrig; LUTHERAN: Rev. Edmund A. Steinile; METHODIST: Rev. Earle H. Furgeson, Rev. George T. Kennedy; PRESBYTERIAN: Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Rev. Alison R. Bryan; UNITARIAN: Rev. Robert...
Father Henry C. Wallace, a solid, competent editor and a good Secretary of Agriculture (he helped blow the lid off the Teapot Dome scandal), would test the talents of a Boswell. It is Grandfather (Uncle Henry) Wallace who steals the show. First a rebellious Presbyterian minister, later a farmer and outspoken farm-paper editor, Uncle Henry passed on his name but none of his sharp wit and little of his peppery common sense and talent for writing...
Three years of persistent Pastor Rockwood's fundamentalism was too much for the 173,152-member Presbyterian Church in Canada. Last week a presbytery court convicted him of "following a divisive course...