Word: gresham
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...droning battle between the Presbyterian Church and the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, the score last week stood 1-to-1. The Church had won the first round by getting peppery Dr. J. Gresham Machen suspended (TIME, April 8 et ante). Round No. 2 involved Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr., member of the Chicago Presbytery, president of Wheaton College, who was haled before a judicial commission for failing to resign from the Independent Board. Last week, upon the commission's recommendation, the Chicago Presbytery dismissed the charge against Dr. Buswell because, according to Presbyterian law the indictment against...
...commissioner to the Assembly was the bellwether of the Fundamentalists, Dr. J. Gresham Machen of Philadelphia, tried, convicted and suspended for disturbing the peace within his church (TIME, April 8 et ante). But he was in Cincinnati, leading the fight from the sidelines and in the newspapers with all the zeal of a man who has given his name to a movement. ("The issue," said onetime Moderator John McDowell, "is Presbyterianism v. Machenism.") Plump-faced, scholarly Dr. Machen last week saw Machenism trounced on the following fronts...
...Trenton, N. J. last week a Presbyterian judicial commission of six unanimously found Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, fiery Fundamentalist, guilty on six counts of having defied the authority of his Church by belonging to the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, March 11 et ante). The commission sentenced this "divisive doctor" to suspension from the ministry...
...defendant was Philadelphia's Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, who for months had been volubly telling how Presbyterian Modernists were persecuting him and other Presbyterian "Bible-believers" (TIME, Dec. 31). The indictment, brought against him by the New Brunswick Presbytery which still claims his allegiance, was a six-point elaboration of the fact that he had defied his Church's orders to resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. The trial was limited by the Book of Discipline to one session every ten days. That it was even held publicly was a concession to Dr. Machen...
...seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal, bilious travesty...