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Born in Philadelphia nearly 53 years ago, Bishop-elect Robbins was a Presbyterian until his late 20's. Then he went to Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), found its Calvinism too narrow, looked for broader horizons. In 1904 he was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. He had parishes at Morristown and Englewood, N. J., went to the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan in 1911. Six years later he was elected Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...grim old John Knox ever turned in his grave, last week he turned again. For no less Presbyterian a person than Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, wrote with at least an open mind to his 10,000 pastors on the question of admitting women to preach and hold high office in the Presbyterian Church...
...editorial quotation, Mr. Callahan was the outstanding Roman Catholic opponent of the Brown Derby last year on the single issue of liquor. He has long been the moving spirit in an Association of Catholics Favoring Prohibition. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, began as a movement chiefly among Protestants. The Presbyterian Board of Christian Education joined its potent propagandizing arm (Department of Moral Welfare) with 30 other temperance organizations including the Anti-Saloon League of America. Among those present in Washington last week to organize the all-embracing Co operative Committee were Bishop Thomas Nicholson (president) and Francis Scott McBride (general...
...rainbow-spanned sky. the reunited church listened respectfully to His Grace the Duke of York, Lord High Commissioner of the new church who gave "full assurance of His Majesty's interest in and love for the Church of Scotland . . . and of his determination to uphold the cause of Presbyterian government in Scotland...
...chew. He likes to walk, dislikes to golf. He has not played cards for 30 years, but enjoys hearing music. In physique he is small, slender. His nickname, ''Baldy," has a certain amount of justification, what hairs remain are greying. Every Sunday he goes to the Presbyterian Church...