Word: machenism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Presbytery, long the recognized stronghold of Fundamentalism in that church, repudiated the Independent Hoard, went on record as "disapproving the formation of a new board." Conservatives and liberals united to defend the board of the church and its secretary, Robert Elliott Speer. Some weeks ago Dr. Machen, head of the new Board, sought to transfer his membership from the New Brunswick Presbytery (Princeton), where he was hopelessly alone, to Philadelphia, where he hoped to rally the forces of Fundamentalism. So many opposed his reception that he is "a man without a presbytery" until his status is determined...
Fundamentalists of the Philadelphia type have long ceased to be a power in national Presbyterianism. The Independent Board, Messrs. Machen, Woodbridge. et al. are without sanction even in Philadelphia Presbytery...
...true, unique, not to be tampered with. Never tired of fighting for their beliefs, they were especially incensed last year when the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions failed to repudiate Author Pearl Buck who, as a missionary teacher in China, was decidedly a tamperer. Led by Dr. John Gresham Machen, who five years ago left Princeton Seminary because it was too liberal and helped found Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, the Fundamentalists took their fight to the Presbyterian General Assembly. They were soundly trounced (TIME, June 5). Very well, said they. They would go home and found a missions board...
...Columbus, Ohio last week met 1,500 U. S. Presbyterians in their annual General Assembly. Fundamentalists had come bringing threats, chief among them Dr. John Gresham Machen of Philadelphia who last month stirred up the row leading to the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as a mission teacher in China (TIME, May 8). Since then Dr. Machen had flayed Mrs. Buck for an "antiChristian propagandist,'' excoriated the Presbyterian Foreign Missions board for its "Yes-&-No" attitude, called everybody names including even much-revered Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer whom, by implication, he called "dishonest" and "evasive...
...cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous and suspicious attitude" toward her friends; "loud arguments about the most trivial subjects," lasting "far into the night." Resigned. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author (The Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 54, commander-in-chief of Britain's Air Defense; after long suffering from what was thought...