Word: presbyterianism
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Just 45 miles from Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, clergy and lay delegates from the Charleston, S.C., area assembled last week in the small, red-carpeted sanctuary of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro. The issue under consideration there and at similar gatherings across the South: whether to end the Presbyterians' own North-South schism, which dates from the Civil War. After an hour of genteel debate, the Walterboro meeting voted for reunion...
...denominations voting on reunion are the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (P.C.U.S.), most of whose 829,000 members live in the South, and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (U.P.C.U.S.A.), which has 2.4 million members nationwide. The so-called Northern branch has long wanted to unite with the Southern, and not one of its presbyteries (regional groupings of local churches) has voted no so far. Under the Southern church's constitution, a negative vote by only 16 of the 61 presbyteries would kill the merger. But the narrow approval in Walterboro last week raised the Southern Presbyterian vote...
...moving through an artery, an arthritis-inflamed knee shrinking in response to steroid treatment, the reaction of a malignant tumor to therapy. "NMR opens up the whole wonderful world of in vivo chemistry," exclaims Neuroradiologist Sadek Hilal, who is testing the new technique at New York City's Presbyterian Hospital...
There was once a woman in the mountains of Scotland who was surreptitiously cooking a goose for Christmas Day, a paganistic transgression, when she was visited by the town's Presbyterian minister. Fearing for her reputation, the woman quickly hid the sizzling goose under her bed. Within minutes, the blankets caught fire and revealed her wicked ways...
...Patients view the YAG as a kind of miracle," says Dr. Stephen Trokel of New York City's Presbyterian Hospital, one of about a dozen U.S. medical centers equipped with the $100,000 machine. Indeed, Florence Clemens, 74, one of Trokel's postcataract patients, reports that although no anesthetic was used, "there was no pain, just the sensation of a very bright, multicolored light." Best of all, when the $900 procedure was over, Clemens could "go right home and start dinner...