Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first skirmish is begun. It centers about the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, where Dr. Fosdick, Baptist, preaches most every Sunday. Three Presbyterian ministers lead the fight to oust Dr. Fosdick from that Presbyterian pulpit. One is Dr. Maitland Alexander of Pittsburgh. He is a rigid man, pastor of the biggest and richest Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh, himself rich. He is also President of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary, famous for its changeless conservatism from generation to generation. The second leader is Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian Church of New York City...
...Christianity is taking Jesus in earnest", said Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, professor of practical theology in the Union Theological Seminary and pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York, in his address at the Union last night on "What is Christianity?" More than 500 men packed the Living Room to hear him speak...
Geraldine Farrar's manager had made a contract with the pastor of the Wesley Memorial Church, Atlanta, for the use of his church's auditorium for Miss Farrar's concert on Nov. 30. Shortly before the concert one Dr. W. H. Laprade, presiding officer of the Methodist Church of that district, removed the pastor and refused to allow Miss Farrar to sing in the church auditorium. He gave as his reason, Miss Farrar's sensational interpretation of the title role in Zaza* which she sang when the Metropolitan Opera Company visited Atlanta in 1920. Nothing could persuade Dr. Laprade...
...hear him speak were unable to gain entrance. He spoke last May at the Union on the subject, "Is Religion Coming Back?" The preceding year at Phillips Brooks House he discussed "The Ministry as a Vocation." He is professor of practical theology at the Union Theological Seminary and also pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York...
President Eliot was not the only Harvard alumnus who was honored there. Three other former Harvard men received Doctor of Law degrees and Miss Comstock, third president of Radcliffe College, also received this degree. These men were; Rev. William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts; Rev. George Angier Gordon '81, pastor of Old South Church; and Mr. Arthur Prentiss Rugg L. '14, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court...