Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House, whither he had come before as politician, as Congressman, as Cabinet officer, came William J. Bryan as a Presbyterian. With him was his brother Charles W. and a delegation from the General Council of the Presbyterian Church to pass the time of day with Calvin Coolidge...
...Reverend Alexander MacColl, Minister of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock...
...Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick has just preached his last sermon as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New York. Under the curse of heresy, he leaves a pulpit where for six years he has preached with the bold courage of his broad convictions. Today he is probably the newest and the greatest force in modern religious thinking and as such he comes in contact with the stern limits of the Presbyterian dogma...
...ridding themselves of such a great thinker, the Presbyterian Church doubtless feels that is safe-guarding public morals. What it has really done is to shut out the humanizing effect of unhampered religious thinking, binding the congregations closer and closer to the worn out dongmas of past centuries. Right or wrong, Dr. Fosdick's has been a new voice in a land of monotones...
Down on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, rain drizzled upon converging churchgoers. The First Presbyterian Church took in all it could; 500 were turned away...