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...opening conference was presided over by Henry Chapman Swearingen, D.D., LL.D., pastor of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church of St. Paul since 1907. He has been a member of the General Council of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. since 1923, member of the Department of Church Co-operation since 1922, on the Executive Committee of Presbyterian Alliance since 1921, of the Federal Council of Churches since 1922, member of the Minnesota State Board of Parole since 1915. Honors sit comfortably on his broad brow topped by his wavy grey hair. Fellows at the conference looked...
Alfred H. Barr, of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago; Hugh T. Kerr, of Pittsburgh ; Lapsley A. McAfee, of Berkeley, Calif.; Harry C. Rogers, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Henry C. Swearingen, of St. Paul, Chairman; Edgar W. Work, of Manhattan: Dr. W. O. Thompson, retiring President of Ohio State University...
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...