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...plan was Pastor Hugh Thomson Kerr's of Pittsburgh's prosperous Shadyside Presbyterian Church. He persuaded his church trustees to give him $4,000 for expenses, and then invited run-of-the-pulpit Presbyterian preachers to a week-long series of sessions at Pittsburgh's Western Theological Seminary...
...leading U.S. churches took a long, somewhat tentative step towards forming one church last week: a Presbyterian and Episcopal joint committee agreed on a program for unification. Their plan ("Essential Features of the United Church") is now on its way to the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.'s 276 presbyteries and the Protestant Episcopal Church's 94 dioceses for further action...
Nothing quite like it has ever happened in the history of U.S. religious sects. Last week one denomination gave another denomination an outright gift worth $400,000. Givers were the Texas Methodists, recipients the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). The gift was the plant and all the assets of the Methodist University of San Antonio, which will be taken over by Presbyterian Trinity University (now at Waxahachie, Texas) next September. Possible worldly motive behind Methodism's good deed: colleges are costly to run and Methodists have ten others to support in Texas...
...will have full wartime prohibition at once if five churches (with over 16,000,000 members—about half the Protestants in the whole U.S.) have their way. In the last three weeks the Methodists, Northern and Southern Baptists the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and United Presbyterians have all condemned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages...
...Presbyterian ministers are dying faster than they are being trained-in the last decade, for every four ordained, five pastors died...