Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbus, Ohio, a Princeton Theological Seminary professor, Dr. Charles R. Erdman, received, by election, the post of Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. It was the happy ending of a year of personal unpleasantness.* When the General Assembly of the Church met at Grand Rapids, Mich., a year ago, Dr. Erdman was the leading candidate. A Conservative, he was supported by Conservatives. He was also supported by Liberals - for it is the strategy of Liberals not to seek the office of Moderator for one of 'themselves, but to have the office filled by a man who will maintain...
...defense-suave Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, cynical Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Perhaps England's H. G. Wells would send a message. Curious hundreds would be sure to jostle for a glimpse of the mournful Bryan, whose moans were loud in the land as, defeated on a Presbyterian issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism." With a snarl or two at Chattanooga, who seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made ready. The Progressive Club "drove" for $5,000 for additional publicity. A drug store re-named itself "Monkeyville Soda Fountain...
...That membership must be open to all who profess themselves Christians according to the so-called "evangelical" manner-i.e., Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian and the like...
...must continue his teaching at Union Theological Seminary; a larger church, seating 2,500, must be built in the neighborhood of Columbia University, several miles from the residential district in which the church is now located. And also, as a graceful gesture, Dr. Fosdick could not accept until the Presbyterian General Assembly officially refused to permit the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to take him back into its pulpit. It was thought that the church members would follow their leaders in accepting the Fosdick conditions...
...prosecution found a voluble champion in William Jennings Bryan, "great commoner." Last week, Mr. Bryan was going the rounds of Eastern lecture platforms, emotionally crying that evolution is the arch foe, not only of Presbyterian Fundamentalism, but of "all religion." He wanted to make the trial, at which he will speak, an onslaught on that system of education "that destroys the religious faith of our children...