Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. is the name of the Southern branch which last week met at Montreat, a staid resort in the mountains of North Carolina. The 400 delegates elected as moderator U. S. Circuit Judge Samuel Hale Sibley of Marietta, Ga. Graduated from the University of Georgia where he roomed with Eugene Black (now Governor of the Federal Reserve), Judge Sibley teaches Sunday School, is an able amateur carpenter...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. (Northern) met in Cleveland. Its official host was the 114-year-okl Old Stone Presbyterian Church on the Public Square, but the 2,000 laymen and clerical commissioners held their meetings in Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Fundamentalists went to Cleveland brandishing threats. Liberals and moderate conservatives squelched them in electing a moderator, in dealing with their "Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions," and this week were expected to trounce them in voting a merger with the United Presbyterian Church. Out of a field of three, Dr. William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia was elected...
...years ago when a poll was taken among Disciples of Christ (Campbellite) ministers as to the outstanding ones among them, Burris Jenkins was well up in the first ten. A denominational rebel like Alexander Campbell who broke away from the Seceder Presbyterian Church in Western Pennsylvania a century ago, he held an Indianapolis pastorate at 27, became president of that city's University in 1899 and of pious Kentucky University two years later. Not until he took his Kansas City pastorate in 1907 was Dr. Jenkins completely free and happy. A Y. M. C. A. worker and War correspondent...
...interests of accuracy, you should be reminded that in your article, in every place where the word ''Presbyterian'' is mentioned, referring to the denomination and the official recognized Board of Foreign Missions, that the full name is "The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America."' There are twelve denominations in this country holding the Presbyterian system of doctrine. . . . The Presbyterian Church in the United States, . . . frequently confused with our church, . . . has a membership of about 500,000, while the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., has over 2,000,000 members...
...Hyde Park Presbyterian Church Boston, Mass...