Word: parental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their followers, than the late Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian Fundamentalist of Philadelphia. A rough-&-tumble polemicist and theologian, Dr. Machen spent a lifetime fighting what he called the "Modernist Machine" government of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He accused the Church of deserting its parent faith by questioning the divinity and resurrection of Christ, toning down essential doctrines ike the Blood Atonement. Result: Dr. Machen and his followers were read out of the Church, founded their own, which they called the Presbyterian Church in America...
...continued to use it pending an appeal. Last week the rebel church was again thrown for a loss by a New Jersey court decision which had nationwide significance. New Jersey's Vice Chancellor Francis B. Davis ruled that although a rebel Presbyterian congregation could secede from the parent church, it could not take its church building-which it had paid for-along with...
...Fundamentalist beliefs, but they stopped short of becoming full-fledged constituents of the rebel Church. When a handful of loyal members of the church brought suit to determine who really owned the building, the status of Collingswood Church was that of a congregation which had defied its parent body but belonged to no other organized group. And t070-odd congregations throughout the U. S. which had left the big Presbyterian Church to join the rebels, the Collingswood suit was a preview of what might happen to them. Collingswood lost, simply because Vice Chancellor Davis read what law said...
...Germany, Italy, Russia, schools are ruthlessly used by dictators to preach their own doctrines. The result is so effective that many an unconvinced parent dare not speak his opinions in his own home for fear that an overconvinced child may denounce him to the authorities. Last week a Purdue University professor, painstaking, blond Dr. Herman H. Remmers, gave a spectacular scientific demonstration of how effective propaganda might be made in U. S. schools...
...Land, buildings, equipment and mineral properties, at cost (except for the inclusion of net revaluation increases by subsidiaries or their predecessors, prior to the organization of the present parent company, of $4,316,994.85 in mineral properties and $241,764.73 in other fixed assets) less reserves for depreciation, depletion and obsolescence...