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...Formed a unique Council of Christians and Jews whose joint presidents are Britain's five top-ranking ecclesiastics-the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), the Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (Nonconformist), Arthur Cardinal Kinsley (Roman Catholic Primate of England), and Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz of the British Empire. Only remotely similar organization is America's National Conference of Christians and Jews-and it has no such official church backing, especially among Catholics...
Among the famed U.S. structures Cram designed or helped design are Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at West Point and Princeton University, Pittsburgh's $4,000,000 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location...
...Good lived for many years in South Cameroons, West Africa as a Presbyterian missionary. Drum thumping is as familiar to him as the clack of a telegraph key. An ordinary drum, he says, can be heard three or four miles by day, ten or 15 miles at night. "I know of one exceptional drum that has been heard 25 miles, though its messages could no longer be understood...
Some while ago he resigned a successful pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio to retire to a home on the headwaters of the Guadalupe River at Hunt. . . . Just a few months ago he came down to Floresville to bury his lifelong friend and comrade-in-arms, Captain Will Wright of the Texas Rangers. . . . The great crag of a man, in his closing prayer, with a level voice directed the thoughts of his listeners to "Cap" Wright's son-on foreign service along with many another Texas boy. You might never have known, except perhaps...
...quiet Jersey hamlet of West Milford last week, a small-town rumpus took on a national significance. The First Presbyterian Church (membership: 176) decided that the symbol of the church takes precedence over the symbol of the state. Despite the vigorous objections of Police Chief Somers Stites, the Presbyterians kept the Christian flag to the pastor's right and the Stars & Stripes to his left in their little white clapboard church...