Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Scanlon, 57, President of the National Tem- perance Society, ardent Presbyterian Prohibitionist; of heart dis- ease; in Pittsburgh...
...will be a queer trial. Judge Fred Raymond is a Protestant. Mr. Reed was born a Presbyterian and is a candidate for President. Mr. Ford, idealist, pacifist and manufacturing moralist, keeps his religion an enigma. William H. Gallagher, attorney for Attorney Sapiro, is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sapiro, onetime orphanage waif and newsboy, once studied to be a rabbi...
Perhaps it was because they had heard that arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Clarence E. N. Macartney of Philadelphia was coming among them, to fill the sacred shoes ot old-school Dr. Maitland Alexander at the First Presbyterian Church (TIME, Feb. 21). Perhaps they wanted to assert themselves before the younger lion of righteousness arrived, or perhaps to prepare for him a fitting atmosphere of holiness. Or perhaps they were truly indignant with no thought of Pittsburgh as the northern capital of Fundamentaland. Whatever the reason, ten Pittsburgh ministers left no churchman dubious, about the spirit that was in them when, last...
...correspondent posed these questions to the editor of the Presbyterian, staunchest fundamentalist periodical of that denomination, published in Philadelphia. The editor of the liberal, undenominational Christian Century amused its readers by reprinting the Presbyterian's reply: ". . . We believe they are the very word of God expressing his just and holy judgment against the apostate wicked through the ages. . . . God is not only love; He is also holy and just, and has declared that He will visit for iniquity. ... It was a mercy to the little babes which were involved in this fearful wickedness and suffering to be taken...
...born of Scotch Presbyterian and farmer stock near Mansfield, Ohio, not far from the birthplace of his dearest enemy, Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions...