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From the Turkish city of Trebizond (equivalent to a U. S. Fundamentalist stronghold) news came last week that pious women have found a way to circumvent the recent law that all Turkish women must go about with their faces naked. Since the Government of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has ravished from Turkish womenfolk the veil, Mohammedan "Fundamentalists" in Trebizond adopted last week the umbrella. Determined to protect modesty, they walked in rain or sunshine with only eyes peeping above umbrellas held flat against face and body...
...correspondent posed these questions to the editor of the Presbyterian, staunchest fundamentalist periodical of that denomination, published in Philadelphia. The editor of the liberal, undenominational Christian Century amused its readers by reprinting the Presbyterian's reply: ". . . We believe they are the very word of God expressing his just and holy judgment against the apostate wicked through the ages. . . . God is not only love; He is also holy and just, and has declared that He will visit for iniquity. ... It was a mercy to the little babes which were involved in this fearful wickedness and suffering to be taken...
Last year, many a Fundamentalist reproached Dr. John Roach Straton, Fundamentalist thunderer, when he invited Uldine to his Manhattan temple to speak. The Bible, they said, forbids women's appearance in the pulpit. Fearless Preacher Straton permitted her to proceed, and she gave a sermon based so fundamentally upon the Ark of the Covenant that it soothed the hearts of the reproachful ones. But later in Madison Square Garden she was charged by atheists with violating the child labor laws by preaching for money...
...Fosdick heard from another of his chronically vehement critics last week-Dr. Clarence E. N. Macartney of Philadelphia, one-time (1924-25) moderator of the Presbyterian Church, all time a Fundamentalist, although a less strident one than Dr. Straton. Dr. Macartney announced that he was resigning his pastorate of Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, to become pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. Concerning Protestant confessional he said: "Dr. Fosdick, as usual, is about five centuries behind the times...
...When the late James B. Duke's tobacco-built estate is administered Duke is to have 80 millions (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924). †Not to be contused with the militantly Fundamentalist denomination, Baptist...