Word: presbyterian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. elected its new moderator (an annual affair) last May, many of its 2,090,000 members knew very little about the new incumbent. Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, 59, was a relatively obscure Indianapolis pastor, with a reputation for somewhat meek piety...
...Wooster, mother of three sons (all in Who's Who) and one daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...
...church members ranging in practically all ages. Anyone contributing to return of same will be handsomely rewarded. No questions will be asked if the returned is willing to have a vital part in building a better world after the Master Architect's specifications. For further details attend First Presbyterian Church, 16th Place and School St., next Sunday at 11. Clarence E. Showalter, minister...
...failure of Versailles at first hand. As chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, he campaigned hard for sane internationalism. And as foreign affairs advisor to Thomas E. Dewey he approved Dumbarton Oaks. But last week Foster Dulles, at a Presbyterian conference in Brooklyn, sounded a sharp warning. Said...
...Princeton University Chapel on Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary and foremost U.S. Presbyterian, preached proud Americans a sermon on Christian humbleness. Excerpts...