Word: presbyterian
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Congratulations for catching a highly newsworthy item in your blurb for the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions [TIME, April 23]., Charming Missionary Woodbridge and his sober-sided backers are out to split the Presbyterian church. This plight would be news indeed to worldly cynics...
However, you overstate the case when you say that "they [Fundamentalists in the Presbyterian Church] set up the Independent Hoard." ... On April 16 the Philadelphia Presbytery, long the recognized stronghold of Fundamentalism in that church, repudiated the Independent Hoard, went on record as "disapproving the formation of a new board." Conservatives and liberals united to defend the board of the church and its secretary, Robert Elliott Speer. Some weeks ago Dr. Machen, head of the new Board, sought to transfer his membership from the New Brunswick Presbytery (Princeton), where he was hopelessly alone, to Philadelphia, where he hoped to rally...
...Bethesda Presbyterian Church...
...acquainted with the facts might assume from the article that those Presbyterians not allied with the so-called "Fundamentalist" group were automatically to be classed as "Liberals." This is not true, for there are thousands of the approximately 10,000 ministers of the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., who are true to every doctrine mentioned, i. e., Virgin Birth. Inspiration of the Scriptures, etc.. who nevertheless condemn the rebel Westminster...
...weekly Advance celebrated a change in name from the Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty by launching a barrage against Dr. Hugh Stewart Magill, secretary of the International Council of Religious Education (Sunday Schools of 36 denominations). Pointing to Will Hays as "that rather tawdry little elder of the Presbyterian Church who was taken into camp by Hollywood's sagacious captains," Advance said that Dr. Magill has "rushed to the aid and comfort of the discredited utility interests" by becoming president of American Federation of Utility Investors, Inc. Advance advised...