Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presbyterian Assembly. Himself an ex-Moderator (1913-14), he found the delegates tremendously excited about the election of a Moderator- Chair man and chief executive of the Church. Among the candidates was Clarence Edward Macartney, 44, of Philadelphia, a bitter-ender, a die hard, a Fundamentalist. Dr. Stone was informed that Presbyterian politicians had packed the Assembly with enough votes to elect Macartney. He was told that the final balance of power had been secured when 18 Negroes were secretly pledged to vote for Macartney. Dr. Stone refused to believe a word of this. Then on the eve of election...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South, impeccably Fundamentalist and anti-Evolutionist, met at San Antonio. It was chiefly concerned with reviving the ancient doctrine of the scriptural subordination of woman to man, with the repeal of woman's right to sit on its executive boards, with repudiation of the Federal Council of Churches, and with investigation of the alleged liberality of its missionaries in the realms of faith...
...stout Presbyterian laymen who are supporting the Liberals at the Grand Rapids Assembly...
...Presbyterian liberals have been rejoicing these last two months on a matter of finance. Official figures still remain unknown, but it is definitely asserted that, in spite of Fundamentalist attempts to boycott the Foreign Missions board, the church has raised its entire budget, and, in addition, $700,000 to wipe out last year's deficit...
Dwight H. Day, ex-financier,* for 18 years Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions, of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., resigned his post with honor...