Word: swearingen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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VICTOR C. SWEARINGEN...
...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...
...Swearingen brought the conference to order, spoke a bit on the "greatest opportunity for the Church in general since the Reformation," the opportunity to soothe racial and national unrest. Dr. R. P. Mackay of Toronto urged the teaching of Christianity in the schools as a preventive of lawlessness, domestic infelicity and other social unrest. Dr. George Warren Richards of Lancaster, Pa., read the rules for the merger. All except Dr. George Summey of New Orleans agreed. He dissented because he felt that the benefits of the union were not clear, as the General Council was only an executive body while...
...Swearingen, St. Paul divine, spoke of the "greatest opportunity for the Church in general since the Reformation." He referred to a certain church merger that was recommended last week. What two Churches (denominations) were involved...
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...