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...moderator is the son of onetime Negro slaves; is 58; a graduate of Fisk University and of Yale (Bachelor of Divinity) ; holds "progressive" rather than modernist religious views...
...gain, as shown in the following table, was less than in recent years, chiefly because of the restriction of immigration from Catholic countries. The increase of other denominations grew from the spirited evangelical activities of the year and, doubtless, also from the religious thought induced by the current fundamentalist-modernist and religion-evolution controversies...
...Reformed might be termed modernist, the Orthodox fundamentalist. Between the two is the Conservative, a compromise which varies with the constitutions and by-laws of the particular congregation. Sometimes the determining on the fine points of such compromise creates bitter controversy (TIME, Mar. 30, RELIGION...
...finds that they are vitally important, are, in fact, the most important differences which exist among Christians. Before varieties of Christians can deal unitedly with practical matters they must, says the world-circling Bishop, "face problems of faith and order, of sacrament and authority." Herein the Bishop, an intellectual modernist, departs from the American liberals, whose inclination is to sidestep questions of faith and order, of sacrament and authority. Secondly, it is widely supposed that the non-Catholic churches have come, or are rapidly coming, to close cooperation. But according to Bishop Brent, the Stockholm conference revealed that the breach...
...thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this page is the excellent drawing by Mr. Codfish Cabot showing Lampy in the act of launching a ship emblematic of the fifty years of his jovial existence...