Word: presbyterianism
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After nine years of debate, study and revision, the United Presbyterian Church last week approved the "Confession of 1967"-the first new Presbyterian creed in 320 years. By a 4-to-l margin, the 829 delegates to the 179th General Assembly in Portland, Ore., voted to accept the Confession, a 4,500-word document that commits the church, in the name of Christ, to labor for such causes as world peace and the elimination of poverty and injustice, and describes the Bible as simply the "witness without parallel" to God's word rather than his inerrant utterance...
...because of obvious social consequences if the pregnancy is not interrupted." Under the old law, no abortion could take place unless it was proved that the mother's life was endangered; last week the operation - the first under the new law-was performed at Denver's Presbyterian Medical Center. This week the second abortion is scheduled to be performed on a twelve-year-old girl, raped 16 weeks ago, who is described by psychiatrists as having suffered "significant mental injury...
Perhaps more than any other U.S. Protestant denomination, the United Presbyterian Church has eloquently proclaimed that contemporary Christianity must concern itself with the problems of the poor. Last week, at its 179th general assembly in Portland, Ore., the church elected as its new moderator, or chief presiding officer, a man who has spent his ecclesiastical career ministering to the underprivileged: the Rev. Eugene Smathers, 59, for 35 years pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church in tiny Big Lick, Tenn...
...poverty-ridden region deep in the Cumberland Mountains. He helped set up health clinics and organize farm cooperatives, as far back as 1940 sponsored some of the South's first interracial, interfaith work camps. The son of a Kentucky tenant farmer and a graduate of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Smathers attributed his election* to his church's "recognition of those who serve in the difficult places of the world among the forgotten." As for Christian witness, Smathers says: "My concept of evangelism is that you've got to be with people and show the love of God through...
Creator of the campaign is Hollywood Humorist Stan Freberg, best known for his takeoffs on Dragnet and his Madison Avenue musings on behalf of Chun King chow mein and the United Presbyterian Church ("The blessings you lose may be your own"). Besides newspaper layouts, Freberg's program includes patter from stewardesses (on landing: "We made it! How about that?"). It also features hot-pink lunch pails which are distributed to passengers and contain such items as a handkerchief-size child's security blanket, which the stewardess demonstrates by rubbing it against her cheek. Freberg plans to paint...