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Died. Richard Davenport Harlan, 71, son of the late U. S. Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan, onetime Presbyterian president of Lake Forest College; of a throat infection; in Washington. His wife died three days prior...
...16th and 17th Centuries great preachers printed their sermons, which little preachers later read to their congregations. Thus were high thoughts diffused among rustic minds. Last week in Texas, a region hospitable to pulpit novelties,* was initiated a modernized version of such preserved preaching. Scene was the Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church, a small Houston congregation which important churchmen lack time to visit in person. To that little church the Division of Visual Aids of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education sent talking picture equipment. The machines reproduced the gestures and words of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, general secretary...
Last week, the Roman Catholics, who seldom have anything to say on Prohibition.- made clear their position on Birth Control. Simultaneously Presbyterians, who do not make Birth Control an issue, issued a statement on Prohibition which is virtually a Presbyterian tenet. At Philadelphia, the administration committee of the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. met in executive session and re-dedicated itself "to a program of education which will make America the most temperate and the most law-observing nation in the world." Copies of this statement, prepared by their moderator, Pittsburgh...
...rumors flew to the effect that he would be nominated to, and accept, the Republican candidacy for Governor of New Jersey in the Spring. Therefore his past was scanned for its high spots. They are: born at Peoria, Ill., April 19, 1861; educated at Princeton and Berlin; served as Presbyterian minister at Chambersburg, Pa. (1887-91), then as instructor of logic, and later of psychology, at Princeton; author of several philosophical works...
...Components: New York State Psychiatrist Institute & Hospital, Neurological Institute, College of Physicians & Surgeons; Vanderbilt Clinic, School of Dental & Oral Surgery, Babies' Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, Sloane Hospital for Women, Jay Bentley Squier Urological Clinic...