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...shrine of Presbyterianism in America," the Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, stated supply (preacher) at the First Presbyterian Church, was relieved of his position. It was not announced whether or not Dr. Machen's withdrawal was aftermath of the flurry that occurred when Dr. Henry van Dyke, genial Princeton patriarch, protested against the "bitter, schismatic, unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton," gave up his pew, said: "Until he is done, count me out" (TIME, Jan 14). In connection with the release, however, the session of the First Presbyterian Church published a tribute...
...Fuller, a Baptist, was seeking appointment to a Presbyterian pulpit in New York. He was standing before an official conclave of the Presbytery. Dr. Tertius Van Dyke, liberal son of liberal Dr. Henry, endeavored to cut short the harrowing discussion, but in vain. A resolution that "owing to the confusion in the reports of the Committee on Candidates, the examination of Dr. Fuller will be referred back to the Committee on Candidates" was adopted...
...usher-tipping; that particular institution, very fortunately, is wholly French. But there are barbers in America, and hat-check girls, and boot-blacks, and waiters, and a whole host of black-eyed banditti whose entire stock in trade is a hypnotic countenance and an irritated palm. If Mr. Van Dyke can only find the opportunity and the strength of character to extend his magnificent principle to take in all these special cases, his claim to the everlasting gratitude of the down-trodden bourgeois will be assured...
...Duke of Westminster decided to sell 50 paintings from his famed collection. The event is to take place at Christie's in London early in July. The collection includes works of Murillo, Teniers, Cuyp, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, Wouwerman, Van Dyke, Rubens, Gainsborough, Velasquez, Brouwer, Turner. The two examples of Rubens are the Adoration of the Magi and The Fathers of the Church...
...Fundamentalists which was to kill Modernism once and forever. Specifically this means ousting Harry Emerson Fosdick from his pulpit in Manhattan. Then it means ousting several professors like Charles P. Fagnani of Union Theological Seminary, and, if possible, a group of educated ministers like Henry Sloane Coffin, Henry Van Dyke, William Pierson Merrill. Then it means the domination of the missionaries, by ejecting them from their not particularly lucrative jobs if they refuse to swear to whatever the Fundamentalists decree a Christian should swear to. And all this depends upon Dr. Stone. If the Macartney-Bryan forces can persuade...