Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's war just and righteous? Yes, said the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. last week. No, it decided, 24 hours later...
These actions highlighted the annual meetings of two great U.S. denominations last week-the Presbyterian General Assembly at Milwaukee, the Northern Baptist Convention at Cleveland...
...Presbyterians. At Milwaukee shrewd, silver-tongued ex-Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr of Pittsburgh caught Presbyterian pacifists off guard on the next to last day. In a silencingly eloquent speech he got the Assembly to declare that "the cause for which our nation is at war is just and righteous, and that our freedom, our culture and our historic faith are dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." This is the nearest a major church on either side of the lines has officially come to calling World War II a holy...
...Hutchison (whose middle name Nye brought him the Lafayette College nickname "Bill" he still goes by) turned 65 the day before his election, and he owes his election to the votes of the Conservative majority. He has been at East Liberty since 1921, saw it become "the most beautiful Presbyterian Church in the world" when Banker-Industrialist Richard B. Mellon (Andrew's brother) gave $4,500,000 for its soaring Gothic buildings. His congregation of 2,500 gives $160,000 a year for church causes, personally supports 14 foreign missionaries...
...said President Henry Sloane Coffin, regarding the election of the first Negro ever named to the board of a major U.S. educational institution. He is Dr. William Lloyd Imes, scholarly pastor of St. James' Church in Harlem, the third largest Presbyterian church in New York City. Union has always admitted Negro students; of its present enrollment of 311, eleven (3.5%) are Negroes...