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Just 45 miles from Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, clergy and lay delegates from the Charleston, S.C., area assembled last week in the small, red-carpeted sanctuary of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro. The issue under consideration there and at similar gatherings across the South: whether to end the Presbyterians' own North-South schism, which dates from the Civil War. After an hour of genteel debate, the Walterboro meeting voted for reunion...
...denominations voting on reunion are the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (P.C.U.S.), most of whose 829,000 members live in the South, and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (U.P.C.U.S.A.), which has 2.4 million members nationwide. The so-called Northern branch has long wanted to unite with the Southern, and not one of its presbyteries (regional groupings of local churches) has voted no so far. Under the Southern church's constitution, a negative vote by only 16 of the 61 presbyteries would kill the merger. But the narrow approval in Walterboro last week raised the Southern Presbyterian vote...
...Presbyterian division in 1861 was an inevitable result of the Civil War, which also split other denominations, notably the Methodists and Baptists. Over the decades, the Southern church has been more conservative than the Northern, particularly on social issues, but in recent years those differences have begun to soften. The Rev. J. Randolph Taylor of Charlotte, N.C., Southern co-chairman of the joint committee that wrote the reunion plan, says that Presbyterianism was "a family that was split mainly by culture, politics and war. Slowly we've come to realize that we need each other...
...moving through an artery, an arthritis-inflamed knee shrinking in response to steroid treatment, the reaction of a malignant tumor to therapy. "NMR opens up the whole wonderful world of in vivo chemistry," exclaims Neuroradiologist Sadek Hilal, who is testing the new technique at New York City's Presbyterian Hospital...
There was once a woman in the mountains of Scotland who was surreptitiously cooking a goose for Christmas Day, a paganistic transgression, when she was visited by the town's Presbyterian minister. Fearing for her reputation, the woman quickly hid the sizzling goose under her bed. Within minutes, the blankets caught fire and revealed her wicked ways...