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Brown studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, spent twelve years as a pastor in Ripon, Wis., Oak Park, Ill., and Portland, Ore., before his election in 1895 as administrative secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. "A divided church cannot save the world," Brown said, and with that in mind he helped organize one of the landmark events of 20th century Christian history: the Ecumenical Missionary Conference of 1900, which took the first major step toward ending the wasteful competition of church missions...
...More. The mill wheel was the all-purpose appliance that could run saws, pump bellows, grind grain, keep trip hammers thumping, turn meat spits and rock babies, all at once. Woods were selected according to capability, and when a wagon was built-oak frame, elm sides and floor, ash spokes and shafts, pine seat, hickory slats-it lasted about twelve times as long as a Cadillac...
Elected as Second Marshal was Wesley S. Williams, Jr. '63, of Quincy House and Washington, D.C. The Third and Fourth Marshals will be C. William Taylor '63, of 24 Oak St., Belmont, and Crookston, Minn., and David L. Johnston '63, of Dunster House and Sault Ste., Marie, Ontario...
Altar, Sacred Oak...
...archaeologists' interpretation of the newly-discovered site proves to be correct, then the altar and sacred oak where the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob worshipped could have been there as early as the 19th century...