Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue-eyed Judge Rutherford was born on a Missouri farm, practiced law, became a circuit judge, accompanied William Jennings Bryan in his first Presidential campaign because he believed that zealous Presbyterian was "appointed by God to straighten out the problems of the world." In 1916 the Judge succeeded the late Charles Taze Russell of Brooklyn, founder-president in 1878 of the Bible Students. This organization now claims 2,500,000 followers who in 60 languages in 34 nations read its pamphlets and its journals, Watch Tower and Golden...
...Descended from a Jewish family resident in the South since before the Revolution, Editor Cohen and his family long were members of Atlanta's North Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...reporters were talking about Fundamentalists-chief subject of conversation in Cincinnati last week as 1,000 commissioners (ministers and elders) gathered for the 147th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. But beyond stressing the obvious point that it would not do to call a Fundamentalist a scoundrel, such libel talk only exaggerated the simple fact that the "Bible-believing" minority of the Presbyterian Church was restless, irritable, unhappy. Well it might be, for it knew that the 147th General Assembly was ready to belabor it and vote it down at every turn...
...Tactics of Tyranny" Up the first day of the Assembly jumped a Philadelphia commissioner to challenge the seating of three Machenite commissioners, all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days of solemn deliberation set off a churchly furor by voting 21-to-1 to unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find...
Though Fundamentalists repeatedly talk of a Presbyterian "machine," few speak up in meeting to give it a name and address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last...