Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler; the Rev. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips P. Elliott, a Brooklyn Presbyterian pastor; Dr. Emory Stevens Bucke, editor of Methodism's Zions Herald; and septuagenarian Lutheran leader Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler. Dr. Trexler demanded the company of his personal physician...
Burr Under His Saddle. When Hollywood called Louis Evans in 1941, he was pastor of the steel-rich, conservative Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh. At first, the un-Presbyterian prospect of sports jackets and starlets did not attract him. "I said no at first when their call came," he said. "But later I realized it would be a burr under my saddle and that Hollywood would be one of the finest recruiting grounds in America. Also, I wanted to get my teeth into something...
...Presbyterian General Assembly announced this week that its biggest U.S. congregation is the 4,677-member First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Calif. But straight-laced descendants of the Kirk need have no fear that Presbyterianism has been luring in churchgoers with California-style hoopla. The secret of the Hollywood success lies in the solidly Presbyterian sermons and able administration of Pastor Louis Hadley Evans...
...debt of $250,000. He wiped out the debt within the first year. Each year since then, on all his calls for money, his flock has answered by topping the figure. All told, his church members* gave $328,000 last year, more than was given by any other Presbyterian congregation in the U.S. Hollywood First Presbyterian claims two other records: more new members during the past five years, the largest Sunday School enrollment (3,783 children...
Strapping (6 ft., 4½ in.) Presbyterian Evans needed only a few days to find out where to start. Then he looked. up the leader of the town's young hooligans. The boy told him, "Yes, we're going to the devil all right. There's no place else to go." Evans promptly commandeered a hotel, rallied the town's boys with saws and hammers to convert it into "Evans' Gym." By the time he left, three years later, order was restored and his congregation had swelled from...