Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chink Landis is no stranger to the East. Born in Tokyo of Presbyterian missionary parents, he saw the U.S. for the first time when he was 13. Said he last week: Americans have been paying too little attention to what the Islamic world thinks of them...
Union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches has been in a palpitant state of slow motion for six years. Last July the Commission on Approaches to Unity produced the "Basic Principles" for union. Last Sunday New York's Bishop William T. Manning, in one fistlike sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, beat the Basic Principles, and probably all hope of church union, to a pulp. The Basic Principles, said Manning, would destroy the Episcopal faith, turn the Episcopal Church into a Presbyterian Church...
Like the Church of England, the Church of Scotland is becoming social-minded. Today 90 Presbyterian parsons act as industrial chaplains in Scotland's shipyards and factories...
Fifty-three years ago Brazil broke its official ties with Catholicism, opened the country to other faiths. Two generations of Protestant missionary work have gained about 1,000,000 adherents to various churches: Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Pentecostal. Fourteen-fifteenths of the work goes on in a 300-mile-wide coastal zone extending from Rio Grande do Sul to Para; the tiny remainder lies in the vast inland rural areas...
Although the Navy's chaplains have seen much active service, only three have been killed so far (two others are listed as missing) in World War II. Two were killed at Pearl Harbor: Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick (Presbyterian) and Moysius Herman Schmitt (Catholic). Within the past month the name of each has been given to a newly launched destroyer escort...