Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, 72, famed, 6' 7" pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's first; congregation: 7,886), known to friends as "Tall Cedar of the Sierras." once famed as Seattle vice-crusader in Klondike days; of pneumonia; in Seattle, Wash...
...Protestant was angular, deep-voiced, intense Dr. Richard Roberts. Presbyterian theologian and onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the sponsors of Yale's University Christian Conference had had to obtain the permission of Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe of Hartford (in whose diocese New Haven lies), and Arthur Cardinal Kinsley of London, Father Orchard's superior...
...Pastor of Manhattan's big, busy Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...Coordinating body of church "social action" groups - Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational...
Rough as thistle and dour as dominie's broadcloth is the Scottish Presbyterian who last week took over as Great Britain's Minister of Information. No government but Britain's would put direct wartime control of newspapers and newspapermen in the hands of a man who hates newspapers and newspapermen as much as does Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He is said once to have had a reporter fired for flying an airplane over the Reith house to take pictures. In one of his rare interviews he flatly declared that he never looked at a newspaper...