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Along with many another divine, President John Timothy Stone of Chicago's Presbyterian Theological Seminary publicly disdained even to reply to the President's appeal. Snorted he: "What I am going to do for the President is to pray for him, because he needs it. It is the President's business to know how to run the nation and not the clergy...
...Lord Tweedsmuir is easily reminded of the Presbyterian divine who, when asked what he thought of Fielding's robust novel Tom Jones, replied, "Lads, it's grand stuff for taking the taste of the Apostles out of your mouth...
...Episcopal Church Pension Fund, founded in 1917, has prospered well, increased its assets from $8,500,000 to $32,000,000, largely through good management and the fact that among its best friends has been J. P. Morgan. Last week the less-publicized Presbyterian Church Pension Board revealed that it, too, has friends in high places. Its secretary, Rev. Henry B. Master of Philadelphia, announced that the Board's assets have increased from $5,000,000 in 1910 to $35,000,000 today. On its rolls are 96% of all Presbyterian ministers and missionaries, its retired beneficiaries receiving...
...last summer the zealots worked. At any sign of progress, Dr. Connell, a strict but swearing Presbyterian who served with the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Forces at Vladivostok, would exult: "Gee Crippen, this thing's just coming along dandy." When he had injected 29 patients dying of cancer, had found that the 25 who survived had lost the haggardness typical of cancer victims, and felt positive that a man and a woman had completely recovered from cancer, Dr. Connell decided that he had better describe his work in the Canadian Medical Association Journal to nail his claim of priority...
Died. Mrs. Harold Elstner Talbott, 71, first citizen of Dayton, Ohio, co-founder of the famed Westminster Choir and Choral School; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Rich Mrs. Talbott, long a Presbyterian Church choir singer, founded her group nine years ago with Dr. John Finley Williamson, financed it liberally, accompanied it on trips to 200 U. S. cities and, in 1929, a European tour. Busy with the Choir and other causes, Mrs. Talbott raised nine children, had 32 grandchildren for whom she purchased a 24-passenger...