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...Presbyterians. Figures announced by Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly, show that the church has gained over 46,000 members through the last year, and has passed, for the first time, the 1,800,000 mark in total membership. The Presbyterians have 9.706 churches and 9,979 pastors. Their Sunday School membership is 300.000 less than their church membership. The government of the Presbyterian Church is much like the government of the United States. Alexander Hamilton, author of the Federalist, was a Presbyterian, and is supposed to have drawn some of his inspiration...
...schools are of college grade, and the state universities are Mormon controlled. Westminster College is only a junior (2 year) college, but is now raising $750,000 to combat Mormonism in its own citadel. Of the desired amount $50,000, has been raised for Christian education, largely from the Presbyterian Church...
...gift has no connection with the organized Rockefeller philanthropies, but will be distributed by Dr. Simon Flexner, Director of the Rockefeller Institute, to the following hospitals: University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.; New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago; Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland; University Hospital, Iowa City, la.; Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Physiatric Institute, Morristown, N. J.; Touro Infirmary, New Orleans; Presbyterian Hospital, New York; Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto General Hospital, Banting-Best Fund, University of Toronto, Toronto...
Church unity is an accomplished fact in Canada. Meeting at Port Arthur, the Presbyterian General Assembly of Canada voted to join the federation which the Methodists and Congregationalists had already accepted. The plan was worked out by the higher bodies of these churches after unity and cooperation had been tried in actual practice in Canadian towns. The new union, therefore, has a basic strength which mere resolutions cannot give. The Congregationalists surrender some, but not much, of the freedom of their individual churches. The Methodists, who in Canada have no bishopric, surrender nothing but a few bits of Anninian theology...
...widely known that he is the acknowledged leader of the Laymen's Association of the Unitarian Church of America and that he is devoting a large share of his time and talents to Christian leadership. He is even more in the Unitarian Church than Mr. Bryan is in the Presbyterian Church; these two are certainly the outstanding lay-churchmen of the country...