Word: gresham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago at its General Assembly in Syracuse, N. Y. the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. formally suspended Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen and five of his super-orthodox Fundamentalist colleagues because they refused to resign from their Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, June 8, et ante). Last week in Philadelphia, with the confidence of his independent income, determined Dr. Machen set about founding a new and "true" Presbyterian Church...
...Machen and 250 Fundamentalists including 33 ministers. The meeting dissolved the organization which had brought them together, the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union which was formed last year to "reform" the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. It then reorganized as the Presbyterian Church of America, with John Gresham Machen elected by acclamation as first moderator. Sitting as a General Assembly, the gathering adopted a brief declaration of faith, vested in a committee the power to ordain ministers...
...Presbyterian commissioners (delegates) made ready to journey last week to Syracuse, N. Y. for the 148th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., in Philadelphia a famed and zealous Fundamentalist geared for action. Dr. John Gresham Machen professes to believe he is persecuted by a "Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating...
...From Philadelphia, Vatican City of Presbyterian Fundamentalism, issued a new semimonthly, The Presbyterian Guardian, the last word in undiluted orthodoxy, as expounded by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. Well and briskly written, the journal's news columns deal mainly with the tribulations of members of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions who have lately been tried & suspended from the Presbyterian Church...
...that heading is found in your Religion column. It was only natural that my curiosity was aroused Behold my surprise when I discovered the name of my onetime prexy and admonisher! I refer to Dr. J. Oliver Buswell Jr., who with his colleague and fundamentalist friend, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, have been battling the Presbyterian Church, due to their affiliation with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Too bad. that the Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church gave Dr. Buswell the break they did. He should have gotten the verdict handed to Dr. Machen-suspension. Then our personal feud...