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...Presbyterianism in America," the Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, stated supply (preacher) at the First Presbyterian Church, was relieved of his position. It was not announced whether or not Dr. Machen's withdrawal was aftermath of the flurry that occurred when Dr. Henry van Dyke, genial Princeton patriarch, protested against the "bitter, schismatic, unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton," gave up his pew, said: "Until he is done, count me out" (TIME, Jan 14). In connection with the release, however, the session of the First Presbyterian Church published a tribute...
...English are no angels, of course," said he, "but their Palestinian motives are in the main idealistic." He is on the most friendly terms with High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. Sir Herbert, says he, has brought about close coöperation between him, the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and the Mufti* of the Moslems...
...Tikhon, unfrocked Patriarch of Russia, fainted in the Donskoy Monastery. Suffering from arteriosclerosis...
...dangerous ocean and a continent of war, his aging eyes hehld a great nation being born from the womb of a great theory ?Russia, the first-born of Communism. Like old Simeon he cried: "A light to lighten the Gentiles," but with more vitality than the Biblical patriarch he proceeded to write a book. He called it Communism and Christianity...
...Venice, the Vice Postulator of Beatification appeared before the Patriarch of Venice and cited 40 witnesses for the canonization of the late Pope Piux X. The parish priest of San Salvatore made depositions concerning miracles attributed to the late pontiff...