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Pennsylvania leads other states in the number of Presbyterian members, Dr. Mudge, Philadelphian, noted. Pittsburgh has the largest Presbyterian congregation, Pennsylvania the largest Synod...
Reformed Church. The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, at Asbury Park, N. J., for their 121st annual session, learned that they had had but $455,345.71 to spend for foreign missions last year. That was $15,406.05 (nearly 4%) less than the missions got in 1925, although they had asked a 20% increase. Grieved on this score, the General Synod was glad to hear Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, advocate that a band of 40 Protestant pastors go as evangelists among college and university students, "those overfed...
...Synod House adjoining the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, went last week some three score of the 138 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They were called there by Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (Maryland) to elect two peers. Vacancies had occurred upon the resignations of Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts and Missionary Bishop Theodore P. Thurston of the District of Oklahoma. Before the House of Bishops convened, a third resignation unexpectedly arrived, from Missionary Bishop Nathaniel Seymour Thomas of the District of Wyoming, who said he wanted to "articulate the theological equipment of the students with modern...
Women of Germany who, since the War, have been like ants hungering for livelihood, last week tore down the prejudices of the German Evangelical Church against women preachers. The General Synod, at Berlin, decided to permit women to be ordained, but with restrictions. They may function only so long as they remain unmarried. They may lead religious services for children and teach Bible classes of girls; may perform work akin to that of U. S. social workers-welfare work in prisons, almshouses, pesthouses and refuges for the aged. They may not officiate at marriages, funerals, baptisms, deaths. Clergywomen...