Word: rehobeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's Makemie pilgrimage began at Manokin Church, Princess Anne, with Historian William Parker Finney as speaker. At Rehobeth Church, Princeton Seminary's Dr. Joseph .Ross Stevenson, onetime Northern Moderator, said: "Presbyterianism makes its appeal to thoughtful minds." But he experienced surprise that, "with its superior resources and superb opportunities," Presbyterianism has been outstripped by such later sects as the Methodists, unknown in Makemie's time. Explained Dr. Stevenson: "We have been afraid of emotionalism-enthusiasm -and as a result have leaned more to formality and restrained respectability...
After a picnic luncheon at Rehobeth the pilgrims proceeded to Makemie Park where Southern Moderator Ernest Thompson extolled Pioneer Makemie. "with the care of all the churches on his shoulders," before a statue of him erected 25 years ago. Doubling back to look at churches at Pokomoke City and Snow Hill, the Presbyterians dined at Salisbury, listened to speeches by Missions Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer and onetime Northern Moderator Lewis Seymour Mudge who said God's word to the church is: "Now march, and lead America that America may become wholly Christian for America's sake...
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