Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian commissioners (delegates) made ready to journey last week to Syracuse, N. Y. for the 148th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., in Philadelphia a famed and zealous Fundamentalist geared for action. Dr. John Gresham Machen professes to believe he is persecuted by a "Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating...
Died. Walter Laidlaw, 75, census authority and Presbyterian founder of potent Federation of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...conservative Methodists. Students at Syracuse, of which Dr. Flint has been head since 1922, professed to believe he had wished to retire because antics of some of its young men, it is still typical of how a good-sized ministerial training school operates. The fact that Union matriculates Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, exposes them to the religious views of Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ and then returns them to their original denominations makes little difference. Few young Protestants today are bothered by sectarian divisions. Those that are go elsewhere than Union-Presbyterian Fundamentalists to Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, Anglo-Catholics...
Union's faculty, all but one of whom are ordained ministers, represent eight faiths. Students learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps...
...from a specialist in whatever "church polity" interests them. By examination time in the spring a Union Methodist should be well grounded in all that any Methodist should know; an Episcopalian should be able to answer the hard questions he will be asked before ordination to the diaconate; a Presbyterian can tell the difference between the Westminster and Auburn Confessions. The average member of Union's graduating class will be temporarily content with a B. D. degree, expect to present himself to a church and be ordained within a year, accept a modest job which his field work...