Word: zion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ecumenical movement in the U.S., Brooklyn-born Yaleman Sherrill seemed a natural choice to head the new superagency. Vice presidents at large: Mildred McAfee Horton, World War II commander of the WAVES, onetime (1936-49) president of Wellesley College; Abbie Clement Jackson, executive secretary of the African Episcopal Zion Church Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society; Dr. McGruder Ellis Sadler, president of Texas Christian University; and the University of Pennsylvania's President Harold Stassen. Treasurer: General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson. As operating head, with the title of general secretary, the delegates elected Dr. Samuel...
...Congregational Christian Churches, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical and Reformed, the Methodist Church, the African M.E. Zion Church, the Colored Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the International Council of Community Churches, the Association for a United Church in America, the Presbyterian Church...
...three major worldwide sects (with the Mormons and the Christian Scientists) that can be properly labeled "Made in the U.S.A." Its founder was a thin, smallish Pittsburgh Congregationalist named Charles Taze Russell, who began preaching the second coming of Christ in the 18703, and organized his followers into the Zion's Watch Tower Society. When Russell died, a pontifical, organ-voiced lawyer, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, took over, built the organization into more or less its present form (estimated membership: 300,000), and called it Jehovah's Witnesses...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine this week, a mixed congregation of 5,000 whites and Negroes attended the New York Interracial Fellowship's fifth annual "race relations service." "The human race is a social solidarity," said Bishop William J. Walls of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. "The church will free its soul and hands only if it removes from itself the stigma that it is the most segregated institution in the United States ... By letting itself become the agent of separation and aloofness it has failed...