Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer, the cause of Dr. Van Dyke's irritation, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, "stated supply" at the First Presbyterian, was removed to duties elsewhere (TIME, July...
Last winter, unable to sit through "schismatic and irritating" Fundamentalist sermons, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, patriarchal poet-diplomat of Princeton, N. J., gave up his family pew, transferred his worshipping from Princeton's First Presbyterian Church to its Second (TIME, Jan.14...
Davidson College (Presbyterian...
...Fosdick has for several years been in the thick of the fight between the Modernists and Fundamentalists. As the Baptist minister of a Presbyterian Church, he became the object of attack by both religious bodies. He especially incurred the wrath of William Jennings Bryan, who believes with Dr. John Roach Straton, that "there are no missing links and no ape men." The culmination of this bitter and pitiless attack on the great liberal religious leader came last fall when the First Presbyterian Church of New York, where Dr. Fosdick has been minister, for several years, decided to sever all relations...
This action was taken after the Presbyterian General Assembly demanded that he either become affiliated with the Presbyterian Church or relinquish his pulpit...