Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presbyterian rule has held that only desertion and adultery are legitimate grounds for divorce. In this Presbyterians have been more liberal than most Christian denominations. Most admit only adultery as a divorce cause. A Presbyterian minister might properly marry a divorce only if the person were the innocent derelict of desertion or the innocent cheat of adultery. And, because the minister has had free discretion to judge marital innocence, amiable pew-holders occasionally have tried to strain his goodwill...
...James Palmer, long associate rector at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and now a professor in the exceedingly orthodox Biblical Seminary in Manhattan, put the preacher's temptation into blunt words last week: "I could have become rich if I had married all the divorced persons who wanted to be wed. At the Fifth Avenue Church there were hundreds of divorced couples who presented themselves for marriage. Some came to see me; others telephoned. Not a small number were wealthy and, though they never, in my experience, actually offered extraordinary fees for the performance of the service...
...WHEREAS the Presbyterian Church, recognizing the civil status of marriage, does not presume to declare null any marriage which the state deems legal, yet insists that Christians in this, as in all other things, must be ruled by the higher law of Christ...
...Gill Robb Wilson (Presbyterian) of Trenton, N. J., literally a "sky pilot" with a formidable Lafayette Escadrille bombing record, was elected the Legion's chaplain over the Rev. J. Monroe Stick of Baltimore...
...McBride, as active lobbyist of the largest volunteer auxiliary the U. S. government possesses, will now have to buttonhole politicians and admonish them himself. Dr. McBride, a United Presbyterian preacher and long head of the Anti-Saloon League in woefully wet Illinois, will now have to battle singlehanded the causes of "crooks and bribery," which U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Lowman says are "rampant" in the Federal enforcement system. Last week, Dr. McBride was known to be picking a band of dry workers to rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor...