Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountains of Kentucky, where life is lived much as it was in the 18th Century, Religion and its handyman Charity were pioneers. In small Beverly, Ivy, a few years ago, there was an Evangelical Station, one doctor, one nurse. In Hyden (population 320) there was a Presbyterian Mission, one doctor making occasional rounds. For the most part the district got its medical care from harridan midwives and "salve doctors" who peddled strange "yarb" concoctions...
...technical and social, at his command. Until his present emergence as a Techo-economist he was accepted as an entertaining drifter who lived in Village squalor. For some time he conducted "a small business called Duron Chemical Co which made paint and floor polish at Pompton N. J. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was a customer. Howard Scott's job was to deliver his goods show his customers how to use the floor polishing material. He disliked that, let the business...
...last week, the Federal Council of The Churches of Christ in America settled its affairs with calm and dispatch. After electing Rev. Dr. Albert William Beaven, evangelical Baptist, its new president (TIME, Dec. 12), the Council gave its vice-presidency, a new office, to Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Presbyterian moderator. The Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they may commit...
Last week two more churches made known their position. The General Council of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. revealed that, meeting in Chicago three weeks ago, it had unanimously pronounced the report "virtually a denial of evangelical Christianity." The Presbyterian Church would, of course, sympathetically consider every "forward-looking policy" but never would it "abandon the New Testament position and surrender the only hope the world has of overcoming the insidious atheism and agnosticism of our generation." Another Presbyterian objection: "We confidently expected that an increase in missionary enthusiasm would result from the Commission's Report...
...evangelical content of Re-Thinking Missions was also too meagre for the United Presbyterian Church of North America, whose Board of Foreign Missions repudiated its "deflection from the fact that Jesus Christ is the only and eternal...