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...college. He prepared for the ministry, but would not become ordained because he felt that priesthood would limit his influence.* Almost at once he stepped into a world business - Foreign Missions. Most of his life has been spent as one of the two or three executives of Presbyterian Foreign Missions. His business has led him into almost every country of heathendom...
...Prophets of Yesterday", by John Kelman, well-known minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City, deals with the significance of the teachings of Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning in modern thought...
...Coolidge attended Sunday services at the Central Presbyterian Church, where Woodrow Wilson worshiped. The sermon was A Great Man Has Fallen...
...PRESBYTERIAN CHILD?Joseph Hergesheimer?Knopf ($10.00). The book comes in a black box labeled in old rose. Its gorgeous binding is wrapped in oil paper. It contains 66 pages, of which 21 are blank. It is about the author's youth, and is signed by the author. Only 950 copies are supposed to exist. The few printed pages describe Mr. Hergesheimer's Calvinistic grandsires, his Calvinistic upbringing, and what he believes to have been his escape from Calvinism. Said Elmer Davis, critic: "As the first 10,000 words of a full-length autobiography, to sell at $2, it would deserve...
Physicians at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, have also initiated a series of studies on body constitution in relation to disease. Their first studies, made on 50 patients with gall-bladder disease and 39 patients with ulcers of the stomach or intestines, indicated that persons who are heavy in relation to their height are more likely to have gall-bladder disease than are other persons. They also found that a wide angle between the ribs, at the point where they diverge in front, is a frequent finding in infections of the gallbladder. And they observed that the jaws and teeth...