Word: swearingen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just returned from the Universal Conference on Life and Work at Stockholm, the Rev. Henry C. Swearingen last week called to order the "Special Commission of Fifteen" of the Presbyterian Church. The Commissioners gathered in a private room in the Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City. The fourteen present were...
With all these figures before them, the leaders of American Presbyterianism met in Atlantic City, laid plans for an energetic campaign. "The business of the church," said Dr. Henry C. Swearingen, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1921, "is selling the gospel, and there is danger that the church will forget that this is its principal task, and will become purely an ethical society or organization for the promotion of philanthrophy...