Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, this border Scot had already packed five noteworthy careers into his amazingly versatile life, was fully equipped with energy and brains to start another at 60. A poor boy (his father was a Presbyterian parson), he had put himself through Glasgow University and Oxford with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned...
Three months after General Lee surrendered at Appomattox in 1865, the first issue of a new liberal weekly called The Nation appeared in Manhattan. Founder and editor was a shy, 33-year-old, Irish Presbyterian, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, who had emigrated to the U. S. nine years earlier. His associate editor, Wendell Phillips Garrison, was the son of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The Nation (named after a fiery Dublin weekly) announced that its purpose was to defend "free inquiry and free endeavor...
After college Edward Harkness became a railroad director, but he soon decided to devote himself chiefly to giving away his money. One of his undergraduate friends was Dean Sage, who visioned a Manhattan medical centre to be created by combining the Presbyterian Hospital (of which he was later president) and Columbia University School of Medicine. Mr. Harkness made the medical centre a fact, eventually gave to it and to Columbia some $30,000,000. Another Yale friend was Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, later president of Union Theological Seminary. Mr. Harkness gave the seminary $1,250,000. Still another friend...
...England's great preachers, William Orchard was trained as a Presbyterian but attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had his doubts about the Resurrection, became increasingly Catholic. He instituted Mass, the Reserved Sacrament, the Benediction, bells, candles and incense in his Nonconformist church. When a well-fed parishioner demanded to know why, in Mass, he had been asked to worship "a bit of bread," Dr. Orchard snapped: "Well, sir, we happen...
Father Orchard and Presbyterian Roberts (who was born in Wales) became friends in England 35 years ago. Last Sunday each knew well the other's mind when they mounted the platform of Yale's Sprague Hall. Their subjects for the first lecture-the Existence of God for Father Orchard, the Nature of God for Dr. Roberts-were typical of the series. The Yale Christian Conference is neither a debate nor a revival, but a sober discussion for a mature audience. Its recent course has been cheering to churchmen searchingfor signs of a U. S. religious revival...