Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian mission boards, North and South, spend more than $300,000 a year to support a Korean Presbyterian Church with 100,000 members. The Japanese Government feels less sure of Koreans than it does of Japanese, worries more about their exposure to Occidental influences. Increasingly in the past five years, beginning when Shinto services were held for soldiers dead in China and Manchukuo, the Government has put pressure upon Korean Christians to join in what it calls "patriotic" ceremonies at Shinto shrines. Christian teachers have been ordered to take their Christian classes to the shrines, join in observances which involve...
Last week the Sunday School Times, world's largest weekly of its kind (circulation: 63,500). brought up the question of whether or not a Christian should bow at a Shinto shrine. Emphatically answering no, it saluted Dr. Charles Darby Fulton, affable, Japanese-speaking secretary of the Southern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, who ordered schools in his jurisdiction in Korea closed-in defiance of the Japanese Government-wherever there were nearby shrines. Korean Presbyterian churches, which are self-governing, may well follow Secretary Fulton's example if the Government tries to force their leaders to visit shrines...
...from Germany, his adopted land and spiritual home, he has settled in Switzerland, his birthplace. U. S. Protestants have been slow to approve and understand this Calvinist, although. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the ablest of Protestant theologians, has been influenced by him. and Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian stronghold, has shown leanings toward Barthianism. Of European conditions upon which Barthianism battens. Manhattan clergymen lately were given a vivid picture of Dr. Adolf Keller, Swiss colleague of Dr. Barth. Declaring that a new church based upon faith, poverty, persecution and meekness is arising in Europe. Dr. Keller said...
...partially supported by arbitrary tithes, now gradually being liquidated. "God's acres" stem from such tithing. For eight years a systematized form of tithing, the Lord's Acre Plan, has flourished under the guidance of the Farmers' Federation of North Carolina. Its director is a Northern Presbyterian, Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Y. M. C. A. man in India, onetime religious director at Lawrenceville School...
Henry Morrison Flagler, son of an impoverished Presbyterian minister in upstate New York, organized Standard Oil Co., left John D. Rockefeller to run it and retired to Florida in 1883 with ever mounting millions in profits. These he proceeded to invest in building Florida hotels (one with 13 miles of corridors), towns, railroads. One of his dreams was to connect Key West with the mainland. He declared he would die in peace once his railroad stretched over the 140 miles of coral reefs to the most southerly U. S. city. Seven years, some 200 lives...