Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vallandigham Kelley, 70, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Co.; of heart disease ; in Chicago. He financed the eastern Asia expedition of the Brothers Roosevelt (Theodore and Kermit), for the Field Museum of Natural History in 1928. Died. Dr. James Gore King McClure, 83, president emeritus of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Chicago, and greatly beloved divine; after a lingering illness; in Lake Forest...
Assorted as any Early Christian group, gathered for mutual aid and prayer, was Great Britain's delegation to Geneva. Present was bespectacled little Founder Buchman who spends most of his time in England. From Edinburgh came Mrs. Alexander Whyte, relict of the later moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland and principal of New College. Accompanying her was James Watt, onetime miner, hot Communist who used to agitate among Fifeshiremen while living on the Dole. Came also Commander Sir Walter George Windham who lists himself in Who's Who as "founder of the Aeroplane Club, 1908; took part in early...
Gloomy figures confronted U. S. Protesant churchmen last week. To the monthly meeting of the administrative committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America went Rev. Arva Brush Keeler, director of the department of Buildings & property of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. Director Keeler told the committee that Protestant churches in the U. S. owe some $135.000,000. Church bonds amounting to $6,000,000 or more have been defaulted by twelve denominations alone. Church credit, said le, is none too good; church building projects are being held up by Depression. Director Keeler suggested...
...Fundamentals Association, publisher of The Christian Fundamentalist, announced it was $1,600 in debt because "one dear friend" is no longer able to give from $1,250 to $2,500 a year. To these names were added last week two more: The Churchman (independent, liberal Episcopal weekly) and The Presbyterian Advance (Southern independent weekly). Both are old, respected. The Churchman, edited by Dr. Guy Emory Shipler, is the oldest church paper in the English-speaking world (founded...
...Presbyterian Advance have also come offers of money "which, if accepted, would make impossible the continuance of The Advance as an independent paper." The issue last week seemed plain...