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...Lambeth* and the Congregationalists at Bournemouth, 107 miles away: church union in India. The handicap of Christian missionaries in India as well as elsewhere is that the heathen cannot understand the competition between Christian denominations. In India there are now a South India United Church (formed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed converts), a Wesleyan Methodist Church of South India, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of India, Burma & Ceylon. The hope of these three Christian churches in India merging soon is good, because their vested interests are neither old nor extensive, because they are forced to a friendliness by their isolation...
...Legg is a Presbyterian. Mr. Williams is a Divine Scientist...
...result of the Maltese friction Great Britain's diplomatic Minister at the Holy See was withdrawn. Deadlock was complete. Replying to a question in the House of Commons last week, Scotch Presbyterian Prime Minister MacDonald said: "We are perfectly prepared, so far as the Government's relations with the Vatican are concerned, to leave the matter where...
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Paul Bustill Robeson was born in Princeton, N. J., where his father was pastor of the Presbyterian Negro Church. Paul was the youngest of eight children. When the family moved to Somerville, N. J., Paul won many an honor in high school for high marks, all-round athletic ability. He was the third Negro to enter Rutgers. "When he graduated in June 1919, he had won his Phi Beta Kappa key, and had been selected by Walter Camp as end for his annual All-American football team. . . . He had won 12 letters. . . . He delivered the Commencement oration...