Word: fundamentalistism
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...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Among the 900 "commissioners" to the Assembly was one who had stayed away from its last meeting in Columbus four years ago, because of the "controversy and acrimony" he knew would arise over the schism led by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. This absentee was Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, moderate Presbyterian, sonorous orator, pastor of Old First Church in Newark, N. J. By last week the acrimony had subsided, Dr. Machen had died, his rebel church was rent by theological squabbles over millennialism,* and Dr. Foulkes turned...
Choice for President Clark's successor depended upon the perennial rivalry be tween Baptist liberals and Baptist Funda mentalists, and a Fundamentalist won this week. He was Rev. Earle Vaydor Pierce of Lake Harriet Church in Minneapolis, called a "co-operating Fundamentalist" , because he holds his noisy brethren in helps avoid open rows...
...licensed to preach at 15, founded his institution a decade ago in northern Florida, planning it as a college for preserving the Bible and "the oldtime decencies" and still appealing to young people. He began with 132 students, confounded pedagogs who thought he was setting up a Fundamentalist camp-meeting by soon proving that his freshman class averaged eight points better than those in other Florida institutions. At the behest of the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland (population 9,100), Bob Jones moved his college into an administration hall; auditorium, library, classrooms and dormitories he built with proceeds from preaching...
Sirs: TIME'S reporting of the Shepard award to Evangelist Harry Ironside [TIME, Dec. 14] is of particular interest to those who knew this outstanding Fundamentalist during his years in Oakland...
Died, Dr. John Gresham Machen, 55, peppery Philadelphia Fundamentalist; of lobar pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak., where he had paused on a speaking tour...