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...that was what the speakers had said and in a sense it was true. Because of Missionary-Nurse Marie Schultze, a 49-year-old Presbyterian, 98% of the 8,000 babies survived the critical first five years of childhood. At her tiny, spotless Madre e Hijo Clinic in Santiago's squalid slums, she had given 20 years to prove that Chile's average infant mortality rate could be cut from 21.7% to less than 2%. For this, she became last fortnight the second woman* to receive the Chilean Government's highest decoration to foreigners: the Orden...
Born in Baltimore, Marie Schultze won her R.N. in three years' hard work at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, was sent to Chile in 1927 by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. In Santiago, she turned an old artist's studio in the slums into a six-bed clinic. To persuade the poor, superstitious women that they should have their children at the clinic, tall, good-natured Nurse Schultze gave free care for the first six months of her new enterprise in charity...
...when Molotov was a veteran member of Russia's Politburo, McNeil was at Glasgow University, trying to make up his mind whether he was headed for the Scottish Presbyterian ministry or for politics. (In Scotland, up to a point, training for either is training for both.) His father, a shipwright, died that year, and his firm gave McNeil's mother a pension of ?26 a year ($125). "That," says McNeil, "was when I turned to Socialism...
When some delegates wrangled over how much education Africans could use, a tiny, coal-black Presbyterian pastor admonished them in parable. Said...
...article by tall, bespectacled Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Wall Street's rich old landmark, Trinity Church. Cried he: "This is the great betrayal! How much more honest it would be for those who are ready to renounce the Church ... to find their place in the Presbyterian Church without trying to 'scuttle the ship' for those who would re-mam true to their ordination vows...