Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Lady Astor to the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, an appreciative audience...
Missionaries. It was considered most appropriate that Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, a potent missionary, should make his first formal speech as new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church before his Foreign Mission Board, which held its 30th annual conference in Manhattan. Said he: "All over the world today we see the breaking down of all other religions. And now it is going to be the Christian religion or no religion whatever. It is a clear issue between Christianity and agnosticism...
...made him vastly unhappy at Princeton, for the greater number of the authorities there have been opposed to his views. When he was named for the Chair of Apologetics, the Board of Directors fought with the Board of Trustees over the appointment. That has been the scandal of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. The General Assembly a year ago would not order the appointment. Three weeks ago at San Francisco the General Assembly again snubbed Dr. Machen (TIME, June...
Princeton Seminary. At Princeton Theological Seminary Dr. Gresham Machen and Dr. Charles R. Erdman had maintained a bitter imbroglio for years. Dr. Machen, a stricter Presbyterian theologian than Dr. Erdman, had been named to the Chair of Apologetics at the Seminary. Of Dr. Machen's intellectual qualifications there was never a quibble. But Dr. Erdman fought the appointment on personal grounds...
Authority. The general assembly decided definitely that a Presbyterian licensed to preach was responsible only to his single church; that a Presbyterian ordained was responsible only to his presbytery; that the general assembly could not properly interfere with the domestic affairs of the presbyteries. The general assembly thus considers itself representing a confederation of presbyteries...