Reformátusok Lapja, 1969 (69. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1969-03-01 / 3. szám
10 REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA U. C. C. Presidential Election The Rev. Dr. Robert V. Moss, Jr., President of Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary, was nominated on January 13 to stand for election as President of the United Church of Christ. The Rev. Phillip W. Sarles, Minneapolis, Minn., chairman of the d e n o m i nation’s nominating committee, announced that Dr. Moss is the unanimous choice of the committee to succeed the Rev. Dr. Ben Mohr Herbster who will retire October 1, 1969. The election to choose a new President will take place at the meeting of the General Synod of the United Church to be held in Boston June 25 - July 2. Dr. Moss has been president of Lancaster Seminary since 1957. From 1951 he has been Professor of New Testament in the Seminary, a graduate school of theology related to United Church of Christ. In 1946 Dr. Moss became an instructor in the Department of Religion of Franklin and Marshall College. He was Assistant Professor of Religion from 1950 to 1951. The 200-million member United Church of Christ was formed in 1957 through union of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Dr. Herbster, a former Evangelical and Reformed Church minister, was the first president of the Church. Dr. Moss was ordained in the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1946. Dr. Moss is co-chairman of the Presbyterian-Catholic Dialogue Group in the U.S.A. He was president of the American Association of Theological Schools from 1966 to 1968 and prior to that for two years was chairman of the Association’s commission on accrediting. He was an observer at Vatican Council 11, and a delegate to the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi, India. He is a member of the Lancaster City Board of Education, and of the Lancaster Free Public Library Board. He is also a trustee of Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa. Dr. Moss was born in Wilson, N. C. in 1922. He received an A.B. degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 1943; a B.D. from Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1945; and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1954. Franklin and Marshall granted him a D.D. in 1960, and Findlay College a D.D. in 1967. He is the author of three books: The Life of Paul, 1955; We Believe, 1957; As Paul Sees Christ, 1958. Dr. Moss is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Phi Beta Kappa, and Pi Gamma Mu. Dr. and Mrs. Moss, the former Junia Keppel, have three children: Robert III, 21, who is stationed with the U.S. Army in Korea, John K., 19, recently wounded in Viet Nam and now hospitalized in the U. S., and Timothy, 16. Rev. Everett C. Parker U. C. C. Office of Communication 2f2!25jaQQa5iE3íaBí2S25i<2E3E322E2!5!2E2í2!25íí2QEií2í2!32?2BSif!2QZ3Eie2 THE HIGH CALLING This is His resurrection day, The cross stands vacant, alone and dark. “Forgetting those things which are behind, Let us press forward toward the mark Of His high calling.” Let us hear His still small voice in the radiant dawn, Let us face the glorious sunlit hills, And follow His footprints on and on. Let us stretch forth our idle hands, Let us reach out, O timid hearts, The call comes clear as a silver bell. The winding line of humanity starts Today from a garden. O comrades, come, Let us follow Christ, let us win the prize, Let us answer the call with hope in our hearts, The dawn of a new day in our eyes. Grace N. Crowell iwaawanaaaanannnHaaaawaaananaaawaaananr 16th Palm Sunday Conference in English and Hungarian for man, woman and young people Sponsored by THE EASTERN CLASSIS OF THE CALVIN SYNOD UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST PALM SUNDAY, MARCH 30th, 1969 John Calvin Magyar Reformed Church 493 Amboy Ave., Perth Amboy, N. J. 08861 Telephone (201)826-3513 Conference Theme: "WHY TO BE LOYAL TO GOD AND MY CHURCH?" Lecture by the Rt. Rev. I)r. John Butosi, President, Calvin Synod
