Word: speers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Margaret Carnegie Perkins, grandniece of Andrew Carnegie; to John Speer Laughlin, son of Steelman George McCully Laughlin Jr. (Jones & Laughlin); at Southampton...
...first thing for the Presbyterians to do was to elect a moderator to succeed Dr. Robert E. Speer. This they did with rapidity on the first ballot. The new moderator is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This...
...subject discussed outside of the great ecclesiastical bodies would offend conservative opinion; or that to avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those in which it would have been regarded as presumptuous...
Said Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, suggesting to the 3,000 students that non-Christian lands had need of 100,000 physicians to deal with 1,000,000 lepers and hundreds of thousands of blind throughout the non-Christian world: "Outside of four or five cities, you cannot find 10 qualified physicians for the 10 million people in Persia...
When Baby Horace Collins Pitkin grew old enough to understand the answers to his questions, he learned the weight of his father's martyrdom. When he grew old enough to read men's books he read Robert E. Speer's A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin,* which told how the slain man had as a boy been skilled in mechanics, had treated school studies as chores essential to be done in spite of dislike, had for two years of his young manhood been undecided whether to study medicine or theology. He took up religion and, with Sherwood Eddy and Henry...