Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sergeant Morgan ducked inside, called Dr. Henry Greist, Superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission Hospital. The tale the native runner panted out was hardly credible. Yet it might be true...
...your Religion column. It was only natural that my curiosity was aroused Behold my surprise when I discovered the name of my onetime prexy and admonisher! I refer to Dr. J. Oliver Buswell Jr., who with his colleague and fundamentalist friend, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, have been battling the Presbyterian Church, due to their affiliation with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Too bad. that the Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church gave Dr. Buswell the break they did. He should have gotten the verdict handed to Dr. Machen-suspension. Then our personal feud would have stood...
...piece orchestra played rousing sacred music. A reformed jailbird, a one-time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ''reformed Presbyterian deacon" gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon whipped up the pulses of 1,500 people in the arched, open-walled tabernacle. One by one they hurried up to kneel in straw and sawdust by a long bench-like altar. Rawboned, hot-eyed men lifted clasped hands high in prayer. Women wailed, waved their arms, chanted gibberish. Small bewildered children noisily imitated their elders. The din rose, night after night, week after week, while plain people nearby stirred crossly...
...droning battle between the Presbyterian Church and the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, the score last week stood 1-to-1. The Church had won the first round by getting peppery Dr. J. Gresham Machen suspended (TIME, April 8 et ante). Round No. 2 involved Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr., member of the Chicago Presbytery, president of Wheaton College, who was haled before a judicial commission for failing to resign from the Independent Board. Last week, upon the commission's recommendation, the Chicago Presbytery dismissed the charge against Dr. Buswell because, according to Presbyterian law the indictment against...
President Sealock arrived in Omaha tingling with conviction that the future of higher education lay with municipal institutions. His first contribution to that future was to shake out of the faculty a quantity of Presbyterian preachers. His second was to replace them with young Ph.D.'s. The new instructors, with their liberal leanings, proved Dr. Seacock's undoing. Few months ago word got out that he was at odds with fully half the regents, including their Chairman James Edward Davidson...