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...Born of a solid ecclesiastical family, he is a low churchman, an arch-Tory, a rabble-hater. His successor, whose appointment the Dean recommended to his King, is Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, 53, dean of Exeter Cathedral. An able theologian and philosophy professor, Dr. Matthews is a religious modernist and far from gloomy. His latest book is a reply to Britain's unorthodox pundit: The Adventures of Gabriel in His Search of Mr. Shaw. This year he scandalized his diocese and caused a "petition of regret" to be circulated when he sponsored a series of Lenten lectures...
...Assembly voted to repudiate the term "Modernist" which the Cleveland Plain Dealer had applied to it when it censured the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions last fortnight. "Conservative" being nearer its mood, it continued to flout the small faction of Fundamentalists in its midst. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, as clerk of the Assembly, despatched an airmail letter to the Independent Board in Philadelphia demanding a certified list of its officers and members, who by Assembly vote are now subject to discipline by their presbyteries...
...elected Dr. Avery Albert Shaw, president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio and president of the Baptist Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. The convention voted to merge its diffuse budgets and to combine separate education boards, but it rejected a proposal to unify four foreign missions societies, fearing that Modernists might get control and send out Modernist missionaries. The Baptists favored a progressive social program, temperance education, Prohibition legislation, Sabbath observance, a "clean-up" of radio programs. They commended pledges to be signed by individuals against joining any aggressive war. Church of God. In Jamaica, N. Y. last week arrived...
...Modernist Trend in Spanish-American Poetry", collected and edited by G. Dundas Graig, should be of great value to this last-named field. The author starts with a discussion of the development of "modernist" poetry. It is Mr. Craig's belief that "modernist" poetry in Latin-America had its birth about 30 years ago when a group of young poets became disgusted with the then-prevailing stereotyped, uninspired verse that was written after the passing of the impetus of the fight for liberty from Spain. With this great source of inspiration removed, "poetry for the time being became the handmaiden...
...scratched the surface of Biblical knowledge yet. We don't know one-tenth of the truth, historically speaking. And the sporting thing to do is for all of us to wait, to reserve judgment, until that knowledge comes into our possession. That goes for Fundamentalists and Modernists alike. The die-hard Fundamentalist is quite wrong, I think, in insisting upon a word-for-word and letter-for-letter correctness of the King James version. And the Modernist-the extremist at the other end-he's just as wrong in leaping to snap judgments and wild conclusions on mere...