Presbyterians

Presbyterians in the U. S. A. The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (largest Presbyterian body), concluded its General Assembly at Cincinnati in time for the clergy to return to their charges for Pentecostal services. Before they disbanded they decided:

To continue forbidding the marriage of Presbyterians and Roman Catholics.-

To call marriage ''an invitation to share in the tragic aspects of our common existence."

To trust "to the Constitution of the U. S. and the faithful instructions of a previous generation to work moral changes in the tastes and conduct of the people of today."

To continue moral and financial support to the Interdenominational Lord's Day Alliance, which seeks to write the Sabbath into the Constitution.

To urge the Senate to ratify the London Naval Treaty.

To protest refusal of citizenship to conscientious objectors against war.

To pass the contribution plate more than ever.

To establish a Presbyterian foundation to receive gifts and bequests.

An unpleasant incident near the General Assembly's end was when Rev. Warren Elsing, 45, of Exeter, Calif., jumped out of a hotel window in a nervous paroxysm.

First woman to be elected a Presbyterian elder, as finally permitted by this General Assembly, is Sarah E. Dickson of the Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee.

United Presbyterians. At their General Assembly, continuing into last week at Des Moines, the United Presbyterian Church of North America was pleased that in the "thorough investigation recently conducted by the Senate Lobby Committee (TiME, May 19) the integrity of the Anti-Saloon League had once more been publicly confirmed." General superintendent of the League is Francis Scott McBride. ordained United Presbyterian minister. The Assembly was opposed to "drinking scenes in the movies showing the use of intoxicants as attractive, adventurous and fashionable" and to "insinuations favorable to intoxicating liquors in the fiction pages of leading magazines." It also condemned compulsory military training in American universities and high schools.

*The Presbyterian Confession of Faith reads: "And, therefore, such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, Papists and other idolaters.''

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