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...Henry Sloane Coffin, Manhattan divine, returned from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Columbus, Ohio. From his pulpit, he declared he would rather submit his conscience to the tyranny of the Pope than to the tyranny of a General Assembly. His devoted congregation prepared to gasp, but quickly found itself smiling when the pastor added: "I never thought I would turn to the Roman Pontiff for liberty...
...Coffin went to the General Assembly, as he had often gone before, one of the many commissioners from the Presbytery of New York. He returned the acknowledged leader of the Liberal elements in his Church, and the potential leader of Liberals in all Evangelical Churches...
There had been one crises at the Assembly. It came when the Judicial Committee handed down judgment that the Presbytery of New York had erred in licensing two young men who had expressed doubt as to whether Jesus had been physiologically born of a virgin. Dr. Coffin, "pale and trembling with excitement," had promptly risen in the name of the New York Presbytery, to protest against the decision. This action resulted in postponement of the issue until a special committee of 15 should have made its investigation of the spiritual condition of the Church...
...than being a Liberal. In the pages of The Presbyterian and in the faculty rooms of the seminary at Princeton, war was waged. Dr. Erdman was ejected from a long-held post of Student Advisor. It was even recorded that Dr. Erdman had been seen walking with Henry Sloane Coffin, Liberal leader. But somehow, war lost its glamor; and. last week, Dr. Erdman was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, succeeding Dr. Macartney, signifying truce. The General Assembly set to work: An overture to excind from the Church the liberally inclined Presbytery of New York was withdrawn. Resolutions...
...world. The company was capitalized at $10,000,000, and $2,000,000 was at once subscribed-enough to start immediate operation of a New York-Chicago overnight route. The list of officers and directors of the National Air Transport Corporation is imposing. President is Howard E. Coffin of Detroit, whose reputation was made as an executive of the Hudson Motor Car Co. Probable Chairman of the Board is Harold H. Emmons, automotive man of equal standing and one of the fathers of the Liberty motor. Clement M. Keys, President of the famed Curtiss Airplane Co., is to be Chairman...