Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Edinburgh, where, stern John Knox once thundered against the impiety of 16th Century non-Presbyterian queens,-some Scots were up to their favorite game of censuring English morals. Their targets: Princess Elizabeth and husband Philip...
Many of you were moved by the story (TIME, Feb. 16) of Ye Yun Ho, ardent young graduate of Korea's Presbyterian Theological Seminary, to send in contributions (or ask where they could be sent) to help him build his church for the scavengers living off of the city dump at the outskirts of Seoul. Recently, TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau chief, Carl Mydans, visited Presbyterian Ye and airmailed the photographs and the account of him below...
...Communism is a response to the failures of Christians." With this warning against Christian self-righteousness, Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary prefaces an analysis of the conflicts between Christianity and Communism. In the current Presbyterian Tribune, Congregationalist Bennett points out two major differences between the two outstanding 20th Century faiths...
...Angeles, Presbyterian churchmen decided that at its next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory...
Vital Statistics. Age: 63 (born Nov. 3, 1884 in North Attleboro, Mass., in a two-family frame house across the street from John Stanley's blacksmith shop). Ancestry: eldest son of eight children of Joseph William Martin Sr., a Presbyterian Scotsman who worked in the blacksmith shop, and Catherine Katon, an Irish Catholic; both his parents were born in New Jersey. Educated: North Attleboro public schools through high school. Not Married. Church: none...