United Presbyterian Research Articles

The Crucifixion, the Jew, and the Christian∗

∗Abridged from chapter 8, “The Crucifixion, the Jew, and the Christian,” Faith and Prejudice (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963), pp. 195‐222, by Bernhard E. Olson. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press. The four series of lesson materials evaluated have the following designations: (MS) means Missouri Synod (conservative materials); (SP) means Scripture Press (fundamentalist); (PR) means United Presbyterian (neo‐orthodox); (UN) means Unitarian‐Universalist (liberal)

The Missionary Vocation Today: What is the Role of the Missionary in a Rapidly Changing Society?: A Selected Reading List on the Christian Missionary.

The Reverend Addison J. Eastman has been a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society in Burma, and is now Director of the Missionary Personnel Program in the Division of Foreign Missions, NCCC-USA. The Reverend Richard B. Poetig has been sent by the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to serve as Minister for Industrial Evangelism, in the United Church of Christ, Manila, The Philippines. Frank W. Price is Director of the Missionary Research Library

LET'S DISCUSS IT; WITH ALL YOUR MIND; and PLANNING AND LEADING LARGE MEETINGS. Department of Adult Program, Board of Christian Education, Adult Leadership Series. Philadelphia: The United Presbyterian Church in the United States, v.d.; v.p. 15c

LET'S DISCUSS IT; WITH ALL YOUR MIND; and PLANNING AND LEADING LARGE MEETINGS. Department of Adult Program, Board of Christian Education, Adult Leadership Series. Philadelphia: The United Presbyterian Church in the United States, v.d.; v.p. 15c

The Policies and Rationale Governing Support of Negro Private Colleges Maintained by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

The Policies and Rationale Governing Support of Negro Private Colleges Maintained by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Book Review: The United Presbyterian Story: A Centennial Study 1858–1958

Book Review: The United Presbyterian Story: A Centennial Study 1858–1958

Relief and Rehabilitation as a Part of the Missionary Task

The Reverend A. Russell Stevenson is Director of the Program in Asia and Non-European Areas of Church World Service. Before assuming his present position he was the Secretary of the Joint Committee for South Asia and the Near East of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Previously, he had been a missionary under the United Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in Egypt.

History of the Somonauk United Presbyterian Church near Sandwich, De Kalb County Illinois, with Ancestral Lines of the Early Members

History of the Somonauk United Presbyterian Church near Sandwich, De Kalb County Illinois, with Ancestral Lines of the Early Members

Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Crum Brown was born in Edinburgh on 26th March, 1838, his father being Dr. John Brown (1784-1858), minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church. Dr. John Brown was twice married. His son by the first marriage was John Brown, M. D. (1810-1882), well known as an Edinburgh physician, but who earned a wider fame as the author of Rab and His Friends, Horæ Subsecivæ , and other literary essays. Crum Brown, the only son of the second marriage, was named after his maternal grandfather, Alexander Crum, of Thornliebank, a merchant and manufacturer of Glasgow. His mother’s brother, Walter Crum, F. R. S. (1796-1867), was a chemist of note, and it is probably due to the influence of this uncle that Crum Brown’s thoughts were specially directed to chemistry amongst the various subjects of his university studies. Crum Brown’s education was received in the Royal High School, Edinburgh, where he spent five years, followed by one year at Mill Hill School. In 1854 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated as M. A. in 1858 in London University, and in 1862 he had the distinction of being the first candidate on whom the Doctorate of Science of the University of London was conferred. After his graduation as Doctor of Medicine in Edinburgh he pursued the study of chemistry in Germany, first under Bunsen at Heidelberg, and then at Marburg under Kolbe. In 1863 he was licensed as an Extra-academical Lecturer in Chemistry by the University of Edinburgh, and in 1869 he succeeded Lyon Playfair in the Chair of Chemistry at the University, holding office till his retirement in 1908.

Prof. A. Crum Brown, F.R.S

ALEXANDER CRUM BROWN was born at Edinburgh on March 26, 1838. His father was Dr. John Brown, minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church; his mother was a sister of Walter Crum, a chemist of distinction. Educated at the Royal High School and at the University of Edinburgh, he graduated as M.A. in 1858 and as M.D. in 186i. In the following year he was awarded the D.Sc. degree of London, and thereafter studied in Germany under Bunsen and Kolbe. Returning to Scotland in 1863, he began his career in Edinburgh as an extra-mural lecturer in chemistry. For six years he taught small classes of medical students and busied himself with research. On the election of Prof. Lyon Playfair in 1869 to represent the University in Parliament, Crum Brown was appointed to succeed him in the chair of chemistry. The department placed under his charge was at first purely medical, but during his tenure it gradually changed its character, and at his retirement in r908 had become one of the chief departments in the Faculty of Science.

The Sociology of Conflict. I

The Sociology of Conflict. I

1. Notice of New Fishes from West Africa

The fishes now exhibited were brought by the Rev. Alexander Robb; D.D., from Old Calabar; West Africa. They were taken in the fresh water of the great Old Calabar River, near Ikorofiong, about a hundred miles or so, by the windings of the river, from the bar near its mouth. The Rev. Dr Robb resides at Ikorofiong, which is one of the stations of the Calabar mission of the United Presbyterian Church.

XXXI.—Description of Calamoichthys, a new Genus of Ganoid Fish from Old Calabar, Western Africa; forming an addition to the Family Polypterini

In the beginning of the year 1865, I received from the Rev. Alexander Robb, one of the missionaries of the United Presbyterian Church, residing at Creek Town, Old Calabar, Western Africa, a package containing some zoological specimens, preserved in spirits; and in a letter dated 28th October 1864, referring to its contents, he states, there “are also two or three small eel-like fishes.” Some time passed before I was able carefully to examine the package, and I was then at once attracted by these small fish, which I saw belonged to the very distinct and interesting Order of the Ganoid fishes, so abundant in a fossil state in the rocks of our earlier geological epochs, but of which so few representatives are now to be found as living inhabitants of the present waters of our globe.

3. Description of the Plant which produces the Ordeal Bean of Calabar

After noticing the various plants used in Africa as ordeal poisons, the author gave an account of the introduction of the Calabar Ordeal Bean into Scotland, by the Rev. W. Waddell, and mentioned its peculiar poisonous qualities, as determined by Dr Christison. To Dr Hewan, and the Rev. Zerub Baillie, who are connected with the United Presbyterian Mission in Old Calabar, he was indebted for some observations on actual cases of poisoning in Africa. The Rev. W. C. Thomson, another missionary, was the first who procured flowering specimens of the plant.