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...Hill was a Texas Ranger 50 years ago, and he is chaplain of the Texas Rangers today. He left the saddle, the mesquite, the Rangers' campfire and their dogged trail of the lawless to become Texas' best-loved Presbyterian minister. . . . For years he was a missionary to Korea, his two boys and his wife accompanying...
...United Presbyterian this week, H. S. Nesbitt, a missionary in distracted India, attacked Mahatma Gandhi-for worshiping cows...
...qualities of leadership had been developing since he was a youngster, the first of six children of the Rev. David Owen Ghormley, Presbyterian minister of Portland, Ore. When Bob Ghormley was ten, the family moved to Moscow, Idaho, and it was from there he entered the Academy...
...signed this statement are as notable as the statement itself. They include President Luther A. Weigle of the Federal Council of Churches, Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Episcopal Church, Moderator Stuart Nye Hutchison and Stated Clerk William Barrow Pugh of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., President Joseph C. Robbins of the Northern Baptist Convention, Douglas Horton, Secretary and Minister of the Congregational-Christian Churches, Quaker Frank Aydelotte, "Y" General Secretary Eugene Epperson Barnett, 16 college and seminary presidents (headed by Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds and Union's Henry Sloane Coffin), ten Methodist bishops...
...complete merger is achieved, the United Church will accept the Bible, the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, both the Presbyterian Confession of Faith and the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, baptism by water and in the name of the Trinity. Bread and wine (Presbyterians generally substitute grape juice) will be used in the celebration of Holy Communion. In governing the United Church, clergy and laity will have "coordinate powers" and an "equal voice" with bishops. Congregations will keep their present rights "unless and until the United Church may see fit to modify them...