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...House the picture of Mackenzie King's mother is illuminated like a shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: King of Canada | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...onetime Army Air Forces chaplain, now. back in his pastorate, last week told his parishioners how a year in the Army had changed his thinking. Wrote the Rev. Jule Ayers, 33, in a letter to the 850 members of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.'s First Presbyterian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What a Chaplain Learned | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Christian Beacon, weekly publication of the fundamentalist Bible Presbyterian Church again trained its guns on the U.S. Navy. Four of its eight tabloid-size pages were spattered with editorials, copies of official letters, affidavits concerning a Southern Baptist Navy chaplain who was relieved of active duty "because of his extremely zealous evangelistic inclinations [which were] embarrassing and disquieting to the associates in the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gatlin Gunnery | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Damnation! He cited a Presbyterian chaplain who "never taught a class at the Chaplains' School but what he used profanity. On one occasion [when] one of the students was giving a sermon before the class, the student happened to say 'I think,' and at this [the chaplain] blurted out 'Hell! We don't give a damn what you think!' This was much to the amazement of the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gatlin Gunnery | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...moderator is Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, who resembles Woodrow Wilson, has been pastor of Indianapolis' Tabernacle Presbyterian Church since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conventions | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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