Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weber, Presbyterian statistician, produced figures. Last year, said he, 87,632 people joined the church. But, said he, if the Presbyterian Church had been functioning proportionately as well last year as in any one of the years 1826 to 1834, it would have added 173,000 people to its roll. He declared that modern theological controversies were responsible for the small harvests, and called special attention to the work of Harry E. Fosdick, Baptist preacher in the Presbyterian fold...
...Sweringen is pastor of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minn. He was chosen campaign manager...
...Appleton Chapel during the first term there are two who are coming from Canada and one from England who have never before preached in the University Chapel. His Grace, the Bishop of Gloucester, of Gloucester, England, will preach on Sunday, November 23, The Rev. Richard Roberts, The American Presbyterian Church, Montreal, Canada, will preach on Sunday, November 30, and The Rev. R. Bruce Taylor, Principal of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, will occupy the pulpit on December 21. There follows a list of the ministers for Harvard University Chapel...
November 30.--The Rev. Richard Roberts, The American Presbyterian Church, Montreal, Canada...
...crowded the greatest Protestant "chapels" of England. He touched the heart of England. His theology was acceptable to England. Dr. Fosdick returned. He was offered several famous American pulpits. He considered whether his preaching of the gospel ought to be contingent upon a theological bargain such as the Presbyterians demanded. He said nothing, but . . . The rumor started, the rumor spread, the rumor became confident prediction that Dr. Fosdick would cease to grace the lower Fifth Avenue Presbyterian pulpit. Probably, it was said, he would undertake, every Sunday, to go from Union Theological Seminary (upper Manhattan) to the Plymouth Congregational Church...