Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have a belief in the Lord Jesus, the repentance of sin, and the what-shall-I-do-to-be-saved religion. That is the attitude of the real oldtime Southern fundamentalist." To many a liberal delegate the Cannon attitude seemed close to Catholicism, from which Bishop Cannon acknowledged having occasionally gained inspiration. Organizing the Buck Hill Falls conference was almost entirely the work of one young man, Stanley Horlund High, editor of the Christian Herald, interdenominational weekly. Recently his magazine adopted colored...
...everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student egg-and-rock riot at Des Moines University (TIME, May 20). Dr. Shields, as President of the Trustees, demanded from University President Wayman the expulsion of six members of the faculty. To Fundamentalist Shields these members looked like Modernists. But President Wayman would make no expulsions. Followed the Shields expulsion of the whole faculty, the riot, and then a court order restraining the Shields action and making possible last week resumption of recitations, lectures at the University. It was with these things that...
...reason for any conflict between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist or scientific point of view, nor should belief in one theory necessarily force us to reject the other. Belief is a matter of faith, and I believe If you will pardon me for saying it, my belief is not a theory. It is a living truth. I would as soon think of denying the reality of the sunlight Why argue with darkness...
After that debate, Evolution seemed to slip quietly out of the public press and mind. But actually fundamentalists and anti-evolutionists were banding together, distributing propaganda. In California blossomed the Bryan Bible League; in Philadelphia, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association. Elsewhere in the U. S. started the American Anti-False Science League, the Fundamentalist League, the Anti-Evolution League. The names BRYAN and DARWIN continued to ring in crowded halls, though afte-the Scopes climax the newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools...
...Frank Norris, fundamentalist pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Tex., took, last week, a swift automobile ride which ended with a view of his church, Sunday school building and gymnasium?all destroyed by fire...