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...Pursuant to the insistent demands of the Presbyterian Church headed by Moderator Macartney and voiced by William J. Bryan, the First Presbyterian Church of New York accepted the resignation of Harry Emerson Fosdick as associate pastor...
Last week Dr. Fosdick returned from a five-months' vacation to find his congregation huger than ever. There were the usual faithful flock and in addition newspaper men, noted theologians, a visiting Bishop. Aside from being glad to have Dr. Fosdick back, these attentive hundreds were keen to hear what he was going to say upon a situation that arose last May between him and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, a situation that might render this sermon his last in the First Presbyterian Church of New York...
...situation was this: In May, the Presbyterian General Assembly (at Grand Rapids) pointed out to the Presbytery of New York that, while he remained a Baptist, Dr. Fosdick "ought not to continue in a Presbyterian pulpit." The Assembly indicated that the logical way to remove "the cause of irritation" was for Dr. Fosdick to enter the New York Presbytery. Whether or not the Assembly expected Dr. Fosdick to do this, could not be guessed, but the Assembly well knew that no such assertions as those Dr. Fosdick made two years ago in the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy could be held compatible...
Since being informed of the Assembly's message, Dr. Fosdick, away, had had no opportunity of replying. In his sermon this first Sunday home, he referred to the question...
...Said Dr. Fosdick: "... I must in all honesty set my longstanding and assured conviction that creedal subscription to ancient confessions of faith is a practice dangerous to the welfare of the Church and to the integrity of the individual conscience ... I sincerely regret ... so much uproar ... I am sending . . . my resignation...