Word: presbyterian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Memories of the Past. All these things were in her mind as she lay sick last .month, her will sapped by nervous exhaustion, in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. China and all these struggles weighed on her mind. But gradually she drew strength from a hope-that she would be able to give the U.S. something it had lacked, a clear look into the eyes and at the face of China...
...Bishop Manning had tackled one of his own men from behind; but as usual it turned out that he had broken no rules. Cause: Canterbury had penned a pleasant note to California's retired Bishop Edward L. Parsons commending him for furthering the current plan for Episcopal-Presbyterian unity in the U.S.A. Plump, painstaking Dr. Temple was careful not to "form any judgment" as to the complex plan in question, but declared that unity would be "a very great contribution toward the cause we all have at heart." Bishop Parsons, who has had rough going because of high church...
Cook was born in Athens, Tenn., where the Negro J. L. Cook High School bears the name of his father, a Presbyterian minister. As a boy he learned the clarinet and piano. He never made the big time as a jazz pianist. But as a good "paper man" (i.e., a musician who can read, write and arrange music) he got a job with a Harlem music publisher, later with Q.R.S. in The Bronx. He has made over 20,000 arrangements for pianola rolls...
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, now 56, and a spinster, broke with her family's Scotch-Irish Presbyterian traditions years ago when she stalked from church during Communion service. Flicking through catalogue cards in the New York Public Library four years ago, she came upon Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita. For no special reason she took out this 300-page commentary on India's famous religious and philosophic poem, whose origin is lost in history. She read how "the lower in us must learn to exist for the higher in order that the higher also...
...time that the Council followed the Detroit Pastors' Union, which had dropped the restrictive word. He and a committee appointed to revise the bylaws deleted the word. But the Council's directors, led by Dr. Joseph A. Vance, 78-year-old pastor-emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church and first president of the Council, promptly restored...