Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bodmer's diminished. Finally, in need of money, Bodmer was forced to sell part of his collection of Millet drawings and paintings. He died in 1893. His legacy of art was bought from Knoedler this summer by the Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha, whose board chairman, John Merriam, is a trustee of the Joslyn Museum. Northern keeps ownership of the art, but the museum becomes permanent custodian. Reported price...
During his first worship service at Broad way Presbyterian, he introduced his Ger man shepherd dog to the congregation from the pulpit - a gesture that delighted children in attendance, but to Merriam's enemies seemed evidence of emotional immaturity. More seriously, they accuse him of lack of judgment. The principal evidence: an incident of last August, when Merriam, on behalf of a self-exiled Iranian scholar, telephoned a State Department official, surreptitiously tape-recorded the conversation, then played the recording -which included some off-the-cuff remarks by the official about Iran's corruption - to a reporter...
...AUTHORITY. Merriam's supporters argue that any presbytery must be wary of removing a preacher once he is called by his congregation, because the very nature of Presbyterianism stresses local control. His critics agree that a call from a church is rarely rescinded, but say that Merriam's unclerical behavior has forced the presby tery to take drastic action...
...Have Judged Hastily." At the long afternoon meeting last week in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Merriam's scattered handful of supporters were given little chance to speak. A motion to withhold further action until the delegates had more time to study the report was voted down. In an impassioned speech that brought tears to the eyes of women parishioners sitting in the gallery, Merriam accused the presbytery of taking unjust and ill-considered action against him. "Fathers and brethren," he cried, "you have judged us hastily, and you have judged us wrongly.'' The presbytery...
Still buoyant and confident of ultimate vindication, Merriam plans to appeal the presbytery's action to the synod of New York State, and, if necessary, to the church's General Assembly as well. His chances of success are small. Thanks to Merriam's outspoken behavior since the ouster, more ministers than ever are convinced that he was the wrong man to handle so sensitive a call as the Broadway church; and they believe that under Presbyterian law they were fully justified in removing him. "Our presbytery," says Dr. Henry Barraclough, a retired Associate Stated Clerk...