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People are prone to think of the Presbyterian Church (North) as riven from top to bottom by five insuperable points of theology into the two parties, Modernist and Fundamentalist. That this is no longer so was demonstrated last week at the 138th annual meeting of the General Assembly, in a Baltimore theatre (the Lyric). Of politics the Presbyterians have plenty, and of late years their Assemblies have assumed the aspect of embattled conventions. But the political alignments and the issues in last week's election of a Moderator, were these...
...broad group whose theology is Fundamental yet not militant to the extent of imposing its tenets upon all Presbyterians by other than the duly constituted judicial agencies of the Church. Its political program was to put in the field?as it successfully did last year after the Modernist-Fundamentalist fight had reached its peak?a tolerant nonmilitant Fundamentalist who would administer church affairs in a businesslike way and smooth over internal disputes...
...acute controversial point to have been deliberated by these men was the constitutional one raised by the Modernist New York Presbytery, which had claimed the right to determine the fitness of candidates for the ministry within its district, without interference from the General Assembly...
...exasperated editor might perpetrate a hoax of this sort. But he will never meddle with a religious subject. That was left to a Canadian Modernist during the ten-day session of the World's Christian Fundamentals Association at Toronto the beginning of the month. W. Harold Young, a Canadian correspondent of the Christian Century, gleefully tells the story in the current issue of that periodical...
Almost ex officio, Harry Emerson Fosdick has carried the fundamentalist-modernist war into the Baptist church. In accepting the pastorate of the Park Avenue church, Dr. Fosdick prescribed liberal terms of church membership. And although the church refused to force the issue with the central body of Baptists and hence failed to send delegates to the Northern Baptist convention now assembled in Washington; nevertheless the convention itself forced the issue. A proposal from the fundamentalists was introduced to define the term Baptist in such a way as to eliminate from membership in Baptist churches all but those received by immersion...