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Under chairmanship of Dr. William James Reid Jr. of Pittsburgh, a United Presbyterian, the delegates urged a unified theology based on their several standards -the Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter catechism, doctrinal statement of the U. P. Church, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of the Synod of Dort and the Belgic Confession...
Next the Most Holy Miron Cristea proceeded to convene the Orthodox Rumanian Synod. These venerable priests voted that, in the eyes of the Orthodox Church, the King and Queen are man and wife. Parliament paused, on the brink of passing a Royal Marriage Act which would make them man and wife...
...chiefly to boost Prohibition (he was too young to hold office), having written novels and campaigned for Labor, he entered organized religion with energy unabated and was soon not only pastor of a big metropolitan church but editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald, President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, President of the International Society of Christian Endeavor...
...Church of Phanar on the Golden Horn of Constantinople, ranking patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church, witnessed a solemn rite. Last month Basil III, ecumenical patriarch of the church, died full of years (87). The Holy Synod of Stamboul last week chose his successor from three grave, bearded Metropolitans. Broussa's Nicodemus, Nicaea's Benjamin they passed over. For Photius, Metropolitan of Dercos, 17 out of 18 of the Holy Synod voted...
...committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers' workday cut from twelve hours to eight. During the War he served with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, still suffers occasionally from a gassing there received. Lately he was elected President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America...