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Since Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin tendered his resignation as pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to become president of Union Theologic Seminary (TIME, Nov. 15), his old congregation has been as unhappy as a household with a cook about leave. The trustees, fed for 22 years on Dr. Coffin's fare of thought, have sought for some young Epictetus to take his place and last week they named their choice...
...answered the call, is George A. Buttrick, 34, English-born son of an English Methodist minister. During the War he worked for the Y. M. C. A. After the War he came to the U. S., eventually to secure the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, the post he now holds...
Though born to a family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic...
...United Church of Canada (Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian) is a huge success, according to its Moderator, the Rt. Rev. James Endicott. Sailing last week down the St. Lawrence River, headed for Asiatic mission fields, this earnest, enthusiastic worker for Community found time to indite a detailed paean of jubilee of the working of the spirit in his domain that reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its conclusions were the more remarkable in that the work has been done in a year and a half (the United Church was inaugurated June 10, 1925); they were convincing in that their recorder...
...treatment for pernicious anemia, devised by Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy and applied by Dr. Walter W. Palmer of the Manhattan College of Physicians & Surgeons, has shown such good results at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, that doctors are telling each other of it. The treatment consists of feeding anemic patients a regulated diet of liver, kidneys and chicken gizzards. These foods contain iron and easily assimilated proteins which the victims need, but which their blood does not manufacture in sufficient quantity...