Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fred Eastman, by resigning from the Home Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church and writing an article about it, has created a disturbance, the elements of which are as follows...
...Eastman is singularly alone in his contention. Hermann Nelson Morse, Budget Director of the Presbyterian Church, flatly declares that only 10% of Home Missions money is used for the so-called "competitive churches" and that a great part of that 10% is merely refunds to the churches in accordance with a Presbyterian rule that the Home Missions Board must return to any church on demand in any one year as much money as the church contributed in the previous year. Mr. Morse's report is generally accepted as another vindication of the purity of church financing...
...Fuller, a Baptist, was seeking appointment to a Presbyterian pulpit in New York. He was standing before an official conclave of the Presbytery. Dr. Tertius Van Dyke, liberal son of liberal Dr. Henry, endeavored to cut short the harrowing discussion, but in vain. A resolution that "owing to the confusion in the reports of the Committee on Candidates, the examination of Dr. Fuller will be referred back to the Committee on Candidates" was adopted...
After the sermon of the outgoing Moderator came the elections. Mr. Bryan began: "The world needs the supernatural Christ, of whom the Bible tells, the Jesus whose blood has colored the stream of time." He concluded by saying that the Presbyterian Church needed Dr. Macartney "whose vigilance first detected the insidious attacks on the doctrine of the Presbyterian Church." Dr. Stone began: "Dr. Erdman has no commitments or alignments. His loyalty to the creeds and standards has never been doubted." He concluded: "This is a conference, not a political meeting...
...persuade Dr. Stone that it is a sin against the Holy Ghost to tolerate "liberals," Dr. Stone, a Fundamentalist, will vote with the die-hard Fundamentalists. But if their actions persuade him that brotherly love is not one of their fundamentals, he will vote against them. So, the Presbyterian Church waited for the psychological reactions of Dr. Stone...