Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement. On the World Council of Churches he is a member of three of the top committees. On the National Council of Churches, of which he is a past president, he is a member of the General Board. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the World Presbyterian Alliance...
Theoretically at least, these are all spare-time activities. Dr. Blake's regular job for the past ten years has been Stated Clerk-permanent executive officer-of the Presbyterian General Assembly, an elected body that is the heart of the government of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterians), who number 3,259,011. Last week and this, in Buffalo, as Dr. Blake took charge for the tenth year of the General Assembly, the prime item on the agenda represented the highest ambition of his career-the "Blake Proposal" for the creation of a new, still-unnamed...
...Presbyterian Blake launched his sensation, appropriately enough, in an Episcopal church: San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. The occasion was the Sunday sermon at the beginning of the annual meeting of the National Council of Churches. A congregation that included some of the biggest wigs in Protestantism filed out 90 minutes later, whispering excitedly. For Presbyterian Blake had made a bold proposal-that the Episcopal Church and Northern Presbyterians together invite the Methodists and the United Church of Christ to form a new Christian church...
...Southern Presbyterian Church last week marched boldly up to pronouncing disapproval of capital punishment-and then got hung up on a point of order. A committee that had worked for a year recommended the new stand to the church's annual assembly in Dallas, only to have a Georgia clergyman point out that the answer to Question 136 of the Larger Catechism ("What sins are forbidden in the Sixth Commandment?") exempts the taking of life for "public justice, lawful warfare" or just defense." Embarrassedly, the delegates backed off, and the death penalty remains Presbyterian policy...
A.H.S. was started almost 40 years ago by Foster McGaw, the no-nonsense son of a Presbyterian minister. McGaw had $30,000 in capital, and paid the lawyer who drew up his corporation papers with a share of stock worth $100. Last week, with A.H.S. stock selling around 94 after a series of splits (another 3-for-1 split is due May 19), the lawyer's $100 fee has pyramided to $235,000. McGaw himself, now 64, has amassed a $35 million fortune...