Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those obscure citizens who believes the minority is often right, permit me to thank you for your clear, fair and newsworthy article on the William Jennings Bryan University and its first graduating class [TIME, June 25]. Mr. Bryan was an ordained elder in our Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and although he was hopelessly outvoted by a church which is fast slipping into Modernism and Apostasy, he was never afraid to inform the church of her danger, and in the face of ridicule and hostility, his superb moral courage showed that he feared God more than he feared man. The last cowardly...
...Manhattan, Will Hays confirmed the Archbishop's announcement. A Presbyterian elder whose solid connections helped get him his job. Tsar Hays has long mollified church people and women's clubs with bland promises of reform...
...Legion of Decency pledge in unison. In Chicago the Catholic Daughters of America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning it by name the Central Conference of American Rabbis commended its aims. The Ohio Presbyterian Synod voted in favor of the Legion. So did the executive commit tee of the Federal Council of Churches, although with characteristic caution it refrained from recommending the pledge to its constituents...
...Oxford, Ohio met the 76th general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, with which the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. last month expressed willingness to merge (TIME, June 11). A candidate for moderator was Dr. Francis Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. The United Presbyterians, however, gave a clear majority to Rev. Dr. John Alvin Orr, 59, suave, well-dressed pastor of Pittsburgh's wealthy First Church and president of that city's Citizens' League. Two days later the assembly voted 123-to-113 against submitting to the 67 presbyteries...
...continuous money-giving by pious folk at home. In the past few years money-giving among U. S. Protestant sects has suffered an ungodly decline. Last week the problem of missions and money made news throughout two groups, one strongly conservative, one strongly liberal. ¶The Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions was founded so that Fundamentalists could give money to send out Fundamentalist missionaries. Last month the Presbyterian General Assembly voted to discipline the upstart Board (TIME, June 11). Last week the Board declined to be disciplined. Instead of disbanding as ordered, it elected two new members and appointed...