Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing quite like it has ever happened in the history of U.S. religious sects. Last week one denomination gave another denomination an outright gift worth $400,000. Givers were the Texas Methodists, recipients the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). The gift was the plant and all the assets of the Methodist University of San Antonio, which will be taken over by Presbyterian Trinity University (now at Waxahachie, Texas) next September. Possible worldly motive behind Methodism's good deed: colleges are costly to run and Methodists have ten others to support in Texas...
...will have full wartime prohibition at once if five churches (with over 16,000,000 members—about half the Protestants in the whole U.S.) have their way. In the last three weeks the Methodists, Northern and Southern Baptists the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and United Presbyterians have all condemned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages...
...other matters the Presbyterian General Assembly heard some gloomy, some heartening statistics...
...Presbyterian foreign missions have been hard hit-307 missionaries are in Jap-controlled areas. But the Assembly voted to recruit 500 new missionaries to send to areas now war-blocked the moment peace comes. Meanwhile Presbyterians are doing more in Latin America...
...Presbyterian ministers are dying faster than they are being trained-in the last decade, for every four ordained, five pastors died...