Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...churchmen had proposed seriously that U.S. Protestants begin at once to unite in a single church. Church unity is something both clergymen and laymen have been talking about for years, but this was the most direct and concrete proposal yet. The man who made it was a rugged, dimpled Presbyterian liberal-Eugene Carson Blake...
Pulling & Hauling. As Stated Clerk (executive head) of the United Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. and onetime president (1954-57) of the National Council of Churches, Dr. Blake was in San Francisco for the National Council's fifth triennial general assembly. He had been invited by California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike to be guest preacher at the pulpit of Grace Cathedral. When he sat down to think out his sermon about six weeks ago, it turned into a preachment that may well be a landmark in Protestant history...
...pray, by the Holy Spirit," he began, "I propose to the Protestant Episcopal Church that it, together with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, invite the Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ to form with us a plan of church union . . . Any other Churches which find that they can accept both the principles and plan would also be warmly invited to unite with us." The religious issue in the recent presidential election, suggested Blake, showed that the time is not only ripe but overripe. "Americans more than ever see the churches of Jesus Christ...
...Milford Haven, cousin of England's royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway...
...privately wrote Vyacheslav Molotov: "If ever I succeed in taking power in my country, I assure you I will build a socialist republic." But he indignantly denied that he was a Communist, described himself as no more than a pious Presbyterian. He was a familiar of the U.N.'s corridors, arguing that only he represented the will of the French Cameroun people. He turned up in Moscow, was always welcomed by Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana...