Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee, retiring Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., went so far as to note that although "it is certain that for some reason, perhaps the Pentecostal spirit, church union is now a living issue," the hope of ecumenical union, including the Catholic...
Born: on a Jones County, N. C. plantation, Jan. 20, 1854. Start-in-life: a country lawyer. Career: Son of a well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The...
At St. Louis last week there was a seminar, wished well by President Hoover, seeking to bring about some mutual understanding and co-operation by Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews. At Buck Hill Falls, near Stroudsburg, Pa., there was a similar Institute of Religion, financed by James Cash Penney and conducted...
Elected. Dr. George Craig Stewart, 50, of Evanston, Ill.; to be Bishop Coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; automatic successor to recently elected Bishop Sheldon Munson Griswold.
Elected. Charles Kendall Gilbert, 51, "liberal" secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, sociologist; to succeed the late Herbert Shipman as diocese suffragan bishop. The result of the vote brought the diocesan convention to its feet with applause. Mrs. Gilbert watched from the organ gallery.