Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced by advancing Nationalist Armies, lacking the allies he had counted on, stalwart, crop-headed "Christian" General Feng Yu-Hsiang realized dismally last week the inopportuneness with which he had declared war on the Nationalist Government (TIME, June...
...crafty "Christian General" pointed out that with Feng and the "Soong Dynasty" resigned, the last of the Chinese militarists would be removed from power and the Government could fall into the hands of civilians, one of Dr. Sun's most cherished ambitions. Further, wrote Marshal Feng, President Chiang had often promised to retire to private life after the final funeral of Sun Yat-Sen (TIME, June 3). Was this not the moment? In case the "Soong Dynasty" should not fall in with his altruistic scheme, Marshal Feng ordered his private train in readiness to carry him from the interior...
Princeton. Convening in St. Paul, the 141st Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout...
Presbyterians. If the hopes of nearly 1,000 Presbyterian churchmen, voiced at the close of their 141st General Assembly last week at St. Paul, are realized, 15,000,000 U. S. Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians will soon be united in common worship. The Presbyterians voted to take steps toward union at once. Said one delegate. "How much more powerful an army could we muster if we churches fought under one banner...
Congregationalists. Fired with like hopes, closer to realization than the Presbyterians, the National Council of Congregational Churches in the United States voted unanimously last week at Detroit to join with the General Convention of Christian Churches in a union whose leadership will total about 1,080,000 souls. To their proposal Dr. Warren H. Denison of Dayton, executive secretary of the General Christian Convention, who attended the Congregational council as corresponding member, gave hearty approbation. Amid cheers, he expressed belief that the body he represented would approve the merger at its meeting in Piqua, Ohio, in October...