Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Japanese Presbyterian with a broad smile and bad eyesight toured the U.S. in 1936, speaking to packed halls on Christianity and consumer cooperatives. For the hundreds of thousands who heard him, Toyohiko Kagawa sounded like a saintly social worker and symbolized the best of Christianized Nippon...
Roman Catholic aloofness toward the church unity movement, predicted Manning, "may change, as many members of that communion hope and believe it will." Manning himself was as aloof as ever toward the often-proposed merger of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. Said he: "If the Episcopal Church were to abandon or compromise its catholic belief as to the church and the apostolic ministry ... to unite with one among the Protestant churches, this would not be a step toward Christian reunion but a step directly away from it. They who urge such action are not thinking of reunion in world-wide...
CHARLES K. IMBRIE, D.D. First Presbyterian Church...
...Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1932. He is a tall, stoop-shouldered, humble man whose bushy, red eyebrows knot together behind his rimless glasses when he thinks hard...
Smathers' old friend Dr. Warren H. Wilson of the Presbyterian, U.S.A. Unit of Rural Church Work helped with the project. Big Lick's 50 families supplied labor. Smathers was the foreman. Said a grizzled Big Lick farmer last week: "That feller did it all. I seen him a-standin' out there in the sun, day after day, takin' holt of the building." By the time the church was built, the people of Big Lick and their pastor had built more than a church. They had welded themselves into a Christian community...