Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the general council of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. approved plans for a Presbyterian Foundation, similar to the Rockefeller and Carnegie institutions, which will enable beneficent Presbyterians to entrust their money to a corps of philanthropic experts. If the plan is approved by the Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in Cincinnati in May, organization will follow...
John Wanamaker was never exactly sure how old he was. He was born near Philadelphia in either 1837 or 1838, the eldest of seven children. The Wanamaker day started at 4 a. m., for the family worked hard, prayed hard. Born a Methodist, John became a Presbyterian...
Wailing from a Park Avenue Presbyterian pulpit, Dr. Meiklejohn, director of the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin, covers himself with his usual sackcloth and ashes and vainly questioning, beats the un answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education...
...next potent businessman to flay Prohibition was Henry Bourne Joy of Detroit, onetime president of Packard Motor Co. He identified himself as a Presbyterian, a five-year supporter of the 18th Amendment. Then he proceeded...
Died. Dr. David Perrie, 72, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada; at Wingham...