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...FRED LUCHS Community Presbyterian Church Athens, Ohio...
...Episcopalians have gone 30% over their quota. Lutherans and the Presbyterian Church U.S. (Southern) have supplied all their chaplains for 1942. The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern), whose educational standards are also high, is somewhat less militant than these other three and is running slightly behind its quota...
...college in Texas, but he soon got homesick for the purple, smoky hills and unlearned mountain folk of Georgia. So back he went, bought himself a small piece of land and began to keep school for his neighbors. His school, first called Rabun Gap, eventually merged with a small Presbyterian school with the Indian name Nacoochee and became the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. "Dr. Andy" developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most of their $222-a-year...
...Crazy Deacon was the only one of Lee's generals who had shown brilliance and had won a decisive engagement. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, 38, a mediocre instructor at Virginia Military Institute, a devout Presbyterian deacon, had been wounded in the hand at Manassas and had fought for the rest of the day with one arm upraised to stop the bleeding. Some of his men thought he was invoking the blessing of heaven. When another officer rode up to say, "General, they are beating us back," Jackson replied: "Sir, we'll give them the bayonet...
...Organized a British Council of Churches, whose 112 Anglican, Presbyterian and Nonconformist members will serve as "an official representative organization for common planning and action." The closest counterpart is America's Federal Council of Churches-which again has never had such a galaxy of top-flight sponsorship...