Word: presbyterianism
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Good Will on the Spot. Crossroads-Africa is the idea of the Rev. James A. Robinson, Negro pastor of Harlem's Presbyterian Church of the Master, who has run interracial programs in the U.S. for 20 years. "The purpose," says he, "is to demonstrate tangibly that we are able and willing to work together, alongside our African friends." Apart from good will on the spot, the most important byproduct lies in a pledge made by each participant: he must average one talk on Africa every week for a year after he returns...
More than Sectarian. He also peels a sharp eye for stories of more than sectarian interest. After Ellen Severson was chosen Miss Miami Beach last year, Taft put her on the church page-in her role as organist and Sunday school teacher at Miami's Palmetto Presbyterian Church. When a phony evangelist named Jack Coe came to town, Taft exposed him, harvested 10,000 letters from readers-mostly grateful-and had the rich satisfaction of seeing Coe hastily strike his revival tent. Taft keeps running track of two Bade County lawsuits challenging a state law that requires public-school...
...First Presbyterian Church...
August 21, Dr. Alvin D. Smith, New England Synod, United Presbyterian Church...
...familiar enough. When that most energetic and terrifying of wowsers, Oliver Cromwell, was fighting the first civil war, Charles was a 16-year-old exile whose doltish father was soon to be be headed. At 21, Charles invaded England at the head of a Scots army, but his Presbyterian soldiers were more concerned, Pearson notes, with religion and robbery than fighting, and Cromwell crushed them easily. For six weeks, before he made his way to France, Charles hid out in various guises, including that of "Will Jackson," a farmer's son. In 1660, after Cromwell had died...