Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ganado on the Navajo reservation in 1927, after twelve years of missionary doctoring in China, he found the Navajos in a "far sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
When he was about 18, Lewis bought a book called Phantasies, by George Macdonald, a Scottish Presbyterian best known for his Princess & Curdie and other children's fairy tales. In the introduction to his recent anthology of Macdonald's work (TIME, June 2), Lewis confesses the importance of that day's purchase: "I had already been waist-deep in Romanticism; and likely enough, at any moment, to flounder into its darker and more evil forms, slithering down the steep descent that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity...
...rounded up a group of young singers who were eager to be heard but did not have the $1,500 to put up for big-time debuts. They chipped in $25 apiece to cover costs, and, for the use of its 260-seat basement auditorium, gave the Greenwich Village Presbyterian Church a share in their company. Hieber got a veteran Broadway actor, Max Leavitt, to teach his singers how to act. Leavitt, in turn, gave the company a name. "Let's serve lemonade," he proposed, "and call it lemonade opera...
...keeping church members jumping with activity seven days a week.* A major source of pride to the congregation is Dr. Evans' team of five vested choirs, totaling 309 voices. Dr. Evans says that this is probably the only way in which his church services deviate from the Presbyterian norm...
...Evans is too good a Presbyterian to be overly impressed by his church's new pre-eminence and the block-long queues that often form outside it on Sundays. Says he. "Mere size doesn't matter." He would like the world to realize "that Hollywood isn't just a glitter spot; it is also a remarkably Godly spot. The press has given a distorted picture of our community. There is an enormous spiritual hunger here, and one of the finest groups of people in the world. Do you know that more divinity students are coming from Hollywood...