When the proposition was first broached in the band room, one of the saddest looking men was the leader, Loren Currier.

When the country could not reconcile the issue of slavery and the federal union, the southern Presbyterians split from the original PCUSA, forming the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America in 1861, which became the Presbyterian Church in the United States after the American Civil War.

When the town celebrated its first birthday in December 1900, the town boasted two churches ( Presbyterian and Catholic ), three saloons, and nearly two dozen other businesses.

When he returned on leave, she had dropped out of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts ; two weeks later, on January 6, 1945, they were married at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York.

When it became apparent to the leaders of the New Model Army that the Parliament — then controlled by the Presbyterian faction — was ready to come to an agreement with the King that would restore him to his throne ( though without effective power ) and negate the power of the Army, they resolved to shatter the power of both King and Parliament.

Hymns from all three churches were sung: All people that on earth do dwell from the Scottish Presbyterian psalm tradition ; the Methodist favourite O for a thousand tongues to sing by John Wesley ; the Congregationalist O God of Bethel ; and When I survey the wondrous cross by the British Nonconformist, Isaac Watts.

When she began to visit Presbyterian retirement homes, which one resident described as " a glorified playpen ," she realized the need to reverse the cultural tendency to treat old people like children.

When Birney turned eleven he was sent to Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, returning home two years later to enter a school run by a Presbyterian man that had just opened in Dansville.

When the church moved from its original location on Madison Street to the former Presbyterian Church on Lake Street, Harvey asked his friend Graham to preach at the dedication service.

When the northern Presbyterian church ( PCUSA ) rejected his arguments during the mid-1920s and decided to reorganize Princeton Seminary to create a moderate school, Machen took the lead in founding Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia ( 1929 ) where he taught New Testament until his death.

When the question of establishing a Presbyterian college at the University of Melbourne was raised in 1877, he pledged £ 10, 000 to the appeal.

When the seminary consolidated with the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary in 1901, Centre took over Breckinridge as a residence hall for students.

When Whirlpool died on 24 June 1899, Smith assumed the role of executor of Whirlpool's estate, arranging for him to be buried in a Presbyterian churchyard.

" When Carson had signed the Covenant he handed the silver pen to Londonderry, and the latter's name was followed in order by the signatures of the Moderator of the General Assembly, the Lord Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore ( afterwards Primate of All Ireland ), the Dean of Belfast ( afterwards Bishop of Down ), the General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church, the President of the Methodist Conference, the ex-Chairman of the Congregational Union, Viscount Castlereagh, and Mr. James Chambers, M. P.

When the CP General Assembly declared their actions to be unconstitutional, several leaders of the group departed the CPC and formed the new Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

When the pro-Royalist Presbyterian mobs of London seized Westminster, he did not join the pro-Army Independent MPs in seeking asylum with the Army.

When Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education announced its plans to give up its public radio license for WRFK, which had assumed a fine music format from WFMV.

When approached by Presbyterian missionary Marcus Whitman in 1835, Tiloukaikt and other Cayuse leaders consented to the establishment of a mission in the valley.

When the radicals mustered enough support to defeat a bill which would have preserved the status quo in religion, the conservatives, together with many moderates, surrendered their authority back to Cromwell who sent soldiers to clear the rest of the Assembly.

When it comes to the world's largest door, there is not just one, in fact there are four and they all belong to NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

When over 100 parliamentarians from the twelve member nations of the Council of Europe came together in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first ever meeting of the Council's Consultative Assembly, drafting a " charter of human rights " and creating a Court to enforce it was high on their agenda.

When the National Assembly was later created in June 1789 by the Third Estate, the clergy voted to join them, which perpetuated the destruction of the Estates General as a governing body.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

When the Commune sent gangs into prisons to arbitrarily adjudicate and butcher 1400 victims, and then addressed a circular letter to the other cities of France, inviting them to follow this example, the Assembly could offer only feeble resistance.

When the Legislative Assembly met at the beginning of October 1849, Passy proposed an income tax to help balance the finances in France.

When Napoleon rose to power in 1799, there was no ancient base from which to draw his staff, and he had to choose the people he thought best for the job, including officers from his army, revolutionaries who had been in the National Assembly, and even some former aristocrats such as prime minister Talleyrand.

When the National Assembly is controlled by his opponents, however, the president can find himself marginalized with the opposition party prime minister exercising most of the power.

* When the majority of the Assembly has opposite political views to that of the president, this leads to political cohabitation.

* When the majority of the Assembly sides with him, the President can take a more active role and may, in effect, direct government policy.

When the Court met for its initial session, opened on 30 January 1922 to allow for the establishment of procedure and the appointment of Court officials, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations passed an emergency resolution through the Assembly which designated an official of the League and his staff as the Registrar and Registry respectively, with the first Registrar being Åke Hammarskjöld.

When any six ( or more ) members vote in favor of a position, that position becomes an official position of the Rabbinical Assembly.

When the General Assembly convened in June 1564, an argument broke out between Knox and Maitland over the authority of the civil government.

When the opposition controls the National Assembly ( and thus government funding and most legislation ), the President is in effect forced to choose a Prime Minister from the opposition ; in such cases, known as cohabitation, the government controls internal state policy, with the President restricted largely to foreign affairs.

When the Constituent Assembly, on 26 February 1790, decreed the division of France into départments, Anjou and the Saumurois, with the exception of certain territories, formed the départment of Maine-et-Loire, as at present constituted.

When the RPR / UDF right-wing coalition won a slight majority in the National Assembly in the 1986 election, Mitterrand ( PS ) appointed Chirac prime minister ( though many in Mitterrand's inner circle lobbied him to choose Jacques Chaban-Delmas instead ).

When he first left the ecclesia ( the Athenian Assembly ) disheartened, an old man named Eunomus encouraged him, saying his diction was very much like that of Pericles.

When the Assembly was dissolved, Harrison and others refused to leave and had to be forced out by soldiers.

When he put these reform proposals to the Representative Assembly on September 30, 1799, they met with massive resistance.

When the House of Burgesses of the Colonial Assembly recommended the formation of a committee of correspondence to communicate their concerns to leaders in Great Britain in March 1773, he immediately dissolved the Assembly.

When the Tuileries were stormed by the armed mob on 10 August 1792 the royal family sought refuge at the Legislative Assembly.

When Cain was returned with a small but workable majority, Kennett was again criticised within his own party, and in 1989 he was deposed as leader and replaced by Alan Brown, a little-known rural Member of the Legislative Assembly.