Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rev. John Henry Jowitt, D.D., M.A., 59, former pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, and of Westminster Chapel, London. (See page...
Recommendations of the Columbus, O., meeting of the Federal Council of Churches, of which Robert E. Speer, Presbyterian, is President, included...
...first skirmish is begun. It centers about the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, where Dr. Fosdick, Baptist, preaches most every Sunday. Three Presbyterian ministers lead the fight to oust Dr. Fosdick from that Presbyterian pulpit. One is Dr. Maitland Alexander of Pittsburgh. He is a rigid man, pastor of the biggest and richest Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh, himself rich. He is also President of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary, famous for its changeless conservatism from generation to generation. The second leader is Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian Church of New York City...
Last week 1,000 ministers, Fundamentalists, met in Philadelphia. Dr. Alexander talked about "our offensive and defensive program." His point was that Fundamentalists would not get out of the Presbyterian Church but that Modernists would be forced to get out. "Let them get out," repeated...
Simultaneously appeared The Presbyterian, accusing the Presbytery of New York of standing in 'defiant challenge" because it has not yet ousted Dr. Fosdick, and bitterly resenting the appearance of a monthly magazine to be called The Church Tower, in which Dr. Fosdick's sermons and news of the First Church will be disseminated...