Word: presbyterians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graham enthusiasts maintain that the results of Graham's other big-city crusades have been tangible, if hard to measure. Says Presbyterian Minister and Author Dan Poling: "What about the entire history of Christianity since St. Peter preached at Pentecost? ... Is not Christianity itself the direct result of evangelism, mass evangelism included...
...born rebel, became chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission in 1937, thereupon unleashed, in his own word, "sulphurous" attack on Wall Street. Although he had never been a judge, Roosevelt appointed him to the court on the retirement of Louis Brandeis. On the bench, pencil behind ear, hair awry, Presbyterian Douglas became a dauntless proponent of labor, civil rights, wrote armloads of decisions. Holding fast to his basic position on the left, he became, with Black, the court's leading dissenter...
...delegates voted for the merger by only 161 to 124 (although in the complex polling setup, the vote of individual presbyteries was more solidly in favor). Said Dr. Robert W. Gibson, president of Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill., and chairman of the committee working for the union: "The United Presbyterian Church, being made up of people who like to think for themselves, seldom moves in unison. [But] I am confident that we shall move with enthusiasm into the union...
...retreat at every opportunity," said Presbyterian Ted Aller of Los Angeles last week, "and when I come home, my wife says I'm fit to live with, for a few months." Design Engineer Aller represents a powerful ground swell in U.S. Protestantism-the practice of making religious retreats...
...Angeles area PRESBYTERIANS are operating two retreat houses. "Sky Forest" is a large redwood lodge in the San Bernardino Mountains, built for his private use by the late oilman and philanthropist Herbert C. Wylie and donated to the Presbyterians. The lodge sleeps 32 people and is used 46 times a year for retreats from Friday evening through Sunday noon which emphasize "reflection periods" and Bible study. "Mar Casa" is a white-shingled, two-story building on Balboa Island, built for the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in World War I for Christian education work, but now used for retreats...