Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finger-Fono. All this scriptural activity flows from a paneled, portrait-hung board room on Manhattan's Park Avenue, headquarters of the Society. Founded in 1816, its first president was Elias Boudinot, a New Jersey Presbyterian who served as president of the Continental Congress. In 1819 it began supplying Bibles, New Testaments and extracts to overseas mission aries, and as of 1962 the grand total distributed had reached over 624 mil lion, in languages and dialects ranging from Apache to Zulu...
...about integration or support for the missions. In Houston, 40 of the city's 187 Baptist churches have changed pastors during the past year, and about 10% of the 1,500 Congregational churches in New England are now without a fulltime minister. In Winston-Salem, N.C., the First Presbyterian Church spent 13 months looking for the right man; one committeeman traveled 12,000 miles on scouting expeditions...
...competition for good corporation presidents or college football players, it's all a matter of supply and demand. Wealthy congregations in the cities and suburbs of both the East and West coasts usually have more eager candidates than they can easily screen. When California's Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church went minister hunting recently, the pulpit committee received an avalanche of messages from out-of-state pastors-some offering to take a salary cut to move to an area with growth possibilities. Rural areas of the South or small Midwestern towns have to take potluck...
Lacking any plausible alternative, most churchmen conclude that preacher shopping is likely to go on forever. As the chairman of a pulpit committee for a Presbyterian church in New York put it, "I don't know if it's the proper way, but it is the Presbyterian way, and I'm stuck with...
...Paul's Macalester College (1,600 students) got another sharp boost from its Most Unforgettable Character, Reader's Digest Founder-Publisher DeWitt Wallace, 73, who grew up on the campus while his Presbyterian father was president. In recent years Alumnus Wallace and his wife Lila have given Macalester $15 million; last week, as the college announced a ten-year drive for $32 million, the Wallaces offered to match dollars each year that the college raises $750,000, up to a total of $10 million over the ten years...