Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Protestants were ever more zealous in faith, more peppery in talk, more beloved by their followers, than the late Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian Fundamentalist of Philadelphia. A rough-&-tumble polemicist and theologian, Dr. Machen spent a lifetime fighting what he called the "Modernist Machine" government of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He accused the Church of deserting its parent faith by questioning the divinity and resurrection of Christ, toning down essential doctrines ike the Blood Atonement. Result: Dr. Machen and his followers were read out of the Church, founded their own, which they called...
This small but vigorous "rebel" church, a vexation to the Presbyterian Church from which it split, was lately ordered by a Philadelphia court to give up its too-similar name (TIME, Jan. 31), but has continued to use it pending an appeal. Last week the rebel church was again thrown for a loss by a New Jersey court decision which had nationwide significance. New Jersey's Vice Chancellor Francis B. Davis ruled that although a rebel Presbyterian congregation could secede from the parent church, it could not take its church building-which it had paid for-along with...
...still own it. So could a Jewish congregation. A Congregational group has the same freedom, but the Congregational-Christian Church-like U. S. Baptist bodies-may hold mortgages on its constituent churches so that they may not pass out of its control. Methodist churches are held by national bodies; Presbyterian churches by local trustees, reverting to local presbyteries if they are dissolved. Church laws apart, State laws of incorporation may limit a church to the activities for which it was specifically incorporated...
...Presbyterian Church of Collingswood, N. J., a quiet commuters' town near Philadelphia, is worth $250,000. For five years this church's pastor was Rev. Carl Mclntire, 31, a boyish, athletic Oklahoman who was one of Dr. Machen's star pupils at Princeton Theological Seminary, followed him into the rebel Presbyterian Church in America. All but 100 of Collingswood's 1,200 Presbyterians went along with their eloquent pastor in his Fundamentalist beliefs, but they stopped short of becoming full-fledged constituents of the rebel Church. When a handful of loyal members of the church brought...
...inducement to the congregation to move to Hampton Gardens, Mrs. William Smith Morton had offered her house and lot, worth $100,000, to St. Giles Presbyterian Church of Richmond. Other residents promptly got up a petition declaring they would not welcome a church because ''the peace and quiet of the locality would be disturbed . . . clustering of a large number of cars on Sunday would constitute a traffic inconvenience and hazard." To preserve their Sabbath peace, the Hampton Gardens Association thereupon voted. 51-to-7, against allowing St. Giles or any other church to build there...