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...told me just what the Sisters of the Blessed Harmony had in mind. 'Harmonians,' she explained, 'are of all denominations. No; not just Anglicans, though we have some of them. ... I myself am a Universalist, which, you see, keeps the peace in the community between the Presbyterian sisters from Massachusetts, the Congregationalists from Connecticut, and the Baptists from Rhode Island. But we do agree on the tea; and that means so much to poor travelers...
...tyro at financial surveys is Lord MacMillan. Son of a Presbyterian parson, now 60, bald, gaunt, spectacled, with a mouthful of false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street...
...unusual, but not improper, for a Catholic family to give a child any middle name but a saint's. Five generations ago there was a Rev. Samuel Knox, a Scots Presbyterian minister who became president of Baltimore City College. First-born male descendants took his name, even when Jesuit Wilson's Catholic grand mother took her children into her church. Born in Chicago 51 years ago last week, Samuel Knox Wilson studied in the Mid west, taught in Jesuit institutions including Loyola, took a doctorate in history at Cambridge. At college he improved his health playing football...
...sponsored Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, gave a true picture of Christianity's status in the Orient. To confirm that picture, the Inquiry last week supplied them with Volume V of its source books-a combined volume of facts on Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China...
...Professor Metzger. would end "much subterfuge and perjury which is now prevalent in every divorce court in the United States." He said his plan had nothing to do with Judge Lindsey's "companionate" marriage, but Judge Lindsey's longtime opponents could see no difference. Fumed the United Presbyterian Church: "The proposal loses sight of the fundamental nature of marriage. . . . Marriage aims at ... the founding of a permanent home. . . . Any such loose lowering of our standards shows diseased thinking...