Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church (no Episcopal church was large enough to hold the 750 Bishops, priests and laymen), were two reports from the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. For six years this Commission has pondered with unflagging leisureliness the question of uniting Episcopalians with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The majority report (twelve signers) favored unity; the minority report (three signers) opposed...
Later scholarly, urbane Presbyterian Moderator Henry Sloane Coffin addressed the Episcopal Convention. Said he dryly: "Our Church is committed to the principle of visible Church unity and never has sought to be merely a sect of the Holy Catholic Church...
Died. Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, 64, charlatan extraordinary to the 20th Century; reportedly after an intestinal operation; in Shanghai. Born a Hungarian Jew, he soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe...
...Among them: Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and President of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Dr. Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, Moderator of the Congregational Christian Churches; Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Secretary of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops; Roman Catholic Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Robet E. Lucey of San Antonio; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, President of the Synagogue Council of America...
Home to the U.S., after three years of active naval duty, came the man who first said (during the Pearl Harbor attack): "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition." He is Chaplain Howell Forgy (Presbyterian). Everywhere Chaplain Forgy goes he hears his famed phrase sung as a popular song. Chaplain Forgy says he would "be content never to hear it again." He is much more interested at present in the effect of battle on a man's religious faith. Says he: "I learned more basic religion in my first five minutes under fire than I did in my seven...