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...call the Presbyterian Church of East Liberty, Pa. the Mellon Church (TIME, April 28). In quite another sense, it is my grandfather's church. He was its first pastor and preached there for 40 years. The "call" came when he was 22 and scarcely a year out of Princeton. In his journal, he calls the venture a "missionary tour to Pittsburgh." He traveled alone across Pennsylvania on horseback and the trip took 15 days (June 10 to June 25, 1829). His journal, kept on the way. is a masterpiece of detail-the price of horse feed-he drank...
...nine U. S. Presbyterian bodies, the three largest held annual conferences last week?Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (northern, largest) in Cincinnati; Presbyterian Church in the United States (southern, next largest) at Charlottesville, Va.; United Presbyterian Church of North America (middle western) in Des Moines. The imminence of the 1900th Pentecost (June 8) made general church union a prayed-for but no more practical topic than usual at each one of these meetings. Although the Presbyterians have been an exceedingly divisive denomination, most of them have approved and adhere to the general council of the Presbyterian...
...interested but non-interfering observer of this Episcopalian incident was Bishop Abbott's elder brother, Mather Almon Abbott, headmaster of Lawrenceville School, a Presbyterian...
When the conservative Presbyterian dissidents left Princeton Theological Seminary to found Westminster Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (TIME. Aug. 5, et seg.), they surrendered the forum of The Presbyterian, denominational publication. Last week the dissidents issued the first number of their own newsorgan. Christianity Today. Editor is Dr. Samuel G. Craig, resigned editor of The Presbyterian. The editorial viewpoint of Christianity Today is somewhat startling to militant Protestants because it presages cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church. As phrased by Dr. Craig it is "that of the Calvinistic rather than that of the Lutheran or Arminian Churches" but "there will...
Women. For a decade Presbyterian women have sought admission to their theocracy. At the Presbyterian General Assembly in St. Paul last year their protagonists succeeded in getting referred to the presbyteries the overtures that 1) women be ordained as ministers; 2) women serve as ruling elders; 3) women serve as local evangelists. Last week the decision on two points was conclusive: the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. will not permit ordination of women as ministers, but will permit their election as ruling elders, permission which makes possible a woman as moderator. Votes on the other point were...