Word: presbyterian
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Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...
...Race Relations Commission has a gold star for the Methodists, it may well put a black mark by the names of two others. Last week, in the closing session of the Presbyterian assembly in Denver (see below), it was decided that the next meeting should take place in Fort Worth, Tex. Arose Negro Missionary Irvin W. Underbill Jr. to object against "any place where a Negro cannot be treated as a man and as a brother." He urged the other Negro delegates thus to go on record. Moderator Charles W. Kerr expostulated. The motion to meet in Fort Worth...
...cool, shady Montreal. North Carolina's mountain church-resort where one does not stay out late, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (Southern) concluded its annual assembly last week. Chiefly for the same reason (Birth Control) as last year, the Southern Presbyterians voted to remain outside the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Denounced as modernists whose teachings result in the decline of young morals were Harry Emerson Fosdick and Council Leaders Samuel Parkes Cadman and Bishop Francis John McConnell. The Montreat assembly named a committee to plan union with other U. S. Presbyterian branches...
...Denver, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. had already heard and defeated a proposal to withdraw from the Federal Council (TIME, June 6). Before adjourning last week, it quashed a second uprising by the same group of impatient Fundamentalists, led by Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths of Philadelphia. Other things the Presbyterians...
Last year a committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a report guardedly approving Birth Control (TIME, March 30, 1931). Though the report was signed by John Abner Marquis, onetime (1916) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., many Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath. Declaring that full time should be taken to consider "the weighty question of whether we wish to continue participation...