Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats in the hall, two-thirds were filled. By order of Chairman Fletcher the assembly stood, sang a verse of America. The Rev. Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney (Presbyterian) offered the first of a series of Convention prayers which included Methodist, Jewish and Roman Catholic-all of them indicating clearly that in 1936 God, if not victory, will be found on the side of the Republicans...
Fortnight ago at its General Assembly in Syracuse, N. Y. the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. formally suspended Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen and five of his super-orthodox Fundamentalist colleagues because they refused to resign from their Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, June 8, et ante). Last week in Philadelphia, with the confidence of his independent income, determined Dr. Machen set about founding a new and "true" Presbyterian Church...
...Machenite Presbyterians soon discovered that church founding has its obstacles. First big one was the ample frame of Moderator George Emerson Barnes of the Philadelphia Presbytery. A onetime University of Montana footballer who subscribes to the 1923 Auburn Affirmation which questions such doctrines as the Virgin Birth, Dr. Barnes is pastor of swank Overbrook Presbyterian Church, a Rotarian and Union Leaguer well versed in church law. When Dr. Machen and his followers began handing resignations to their presbyteries last week, Moderator Barnes promptly called a meeting at which he declared that it was impossible for a Presbyterian minister to resign...
Moderator. In the election of a man to head 2,000.000 U. S. Presbyterians for the next year, the comuiissioners gave 126 votes to a Machenite Fundamentalist, 251 to a Chicago preacher who was supposed to represent the rank & file of the ministry, 508 to an administration wheelhorse of a type that Presbyterians have docilely accepted in recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives...
Christ's Court. During the past two years, Fundamentalist Machen and a handful of his followers have defied the Presbyterian Assembly by belonging to the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, April 23, 1934, et seq.) Tried and in most cases convicted by local presbyteries, they repeatedly appealed until last week they were before the bar of the Church's highest tribunal- the Assembly, sitting as a "Court of Jesus Christ" and voting upon preliminary decisions made by the Permanent Judicial Commission whose head is Minnesota's Supreme Court Justice Clifford L. Hilton. To the appeals...