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...Harry Emerson Fosdick, of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, returned to his congregation on the Minnckahda. Like his good friend, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin (see p. 36), he announced that he would vote for Herbert Clark Hoover, and added, "I shall not make my pulpit a political platform...
Many a Presbyterian, profoundly aware of the existence of Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin among their fellowship, waited his word. Would his silence have the effect of committing the entire church "to work, and pray and vote for . . . Hoover." Last week Dr. Coffin wrote a letter to the New York Times. Brief, compact, it follows...
...HENRY SLOANE COFFIN...
...Coffin's letter only partially counteracts Moderator Walker's call for Hoover votes on behalf of "Christ & Church." It does, however, leave the Presbyterian church much less unanimously in politics than other communions. In order of the pro-Hoover activity of their ministers, the principal Protestant denominations were ranked last week as follows: Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians (almost no campaigning...
...ordained minister, Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas was once a pupil at the Union Theological Seminary of which Dr. Coffin is now president...