Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Religion: Missionaries to Korea
In Brooklyn (at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church) last week a 53-year-old missionary and his 25-year-old twin sons were together ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. They were Dr. Horace H. Underwood (of the typewriter Underwoods), who was repatriated two years ago from Korea, and his sons, James and John, graduates of Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Underwood has had no theological training. His 32 years' work as a veteran missionary in Korea kept him "too busy to be ordained." But he has a Ph.D. from New York University, and Presbyterian usage permits the ordination of men...
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