Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed the town Saint's Rest. But even for New Concord, young Glenn's standards were strict...
...WILLIAM GLENESK Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church Brooklyn...
...weekly Our Sunday Visitor discovered nearly 300 Catholic parishes whose pastors have already introduced tithing, 1,250 others where the system is scheduled for adoption. At its 60th triennial convocation of bishops in Detroit last year, the Protestant Episcopal Church strongly recommended that ministers introduce tithing. The United Presbyterian Fellowship of Tithing Churches, which had twelve congregations at its founding...
...Harvard, the Young Democrats, the Liberal Union, the Congregational-presbyterian Fellowship and the Republican Advance for Equal Opportunity have endorsed the project and anticipate participation by their members...
...Presbyterian McIntire was expelled by his church in 1936 for "disturbing the peace of the church" by loud and vigorous protests against modernism. He organized his own fundamentalist Presbyterian Church, helped establish the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches in opposition to the ecumenical National Council of Churches. Baptist Shields for years, until his death in 1955, carried on a strident campaign against Catholicism and for stricter Bible interpretation...