Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prayers for the union of all the Presbyterian and Reformed organizations in the land (TIME, Feb. 10; June 9) were answered at Pittsburgh last week. Representatives of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (Northern), Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (Southern), United Presbyterian Church of North America, Reformed Church in America (Dutch), and Reformed Church in the U. S. (German) agreed on the principles of such union. The five bodies will each vote on the matter at their next general assemblies and synods...
Under chairmanship of Dr. William James Reid Jr. of Pittsburgh, a United Presbyterian, the delegates urged a unified theology based on their several standards -the Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter catechism, doctrinal statement of the U. P. Church, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of the Synod of Dort and the Belgic Confession...
...Obviously, some simple organization soon became necessary in view of the growing number of converts. This assumed different forms in different centres, as for instance, Presbyterian [elders] at Rome, Episcopalian [overseers, supervisors] in some parts of Asia and Congregational in other localities. It is also a matter of history that as the centuries rolled on the Episcopalian form of government ultimately superseded all others until the Reformation...
...Clergy Club of New York & Neighborhood, an organization of miscellaneous Protestant doctrinaires, assembled to protest. Dr. Walter Laidlaw, Presbyterian, the Club's founder, spoke harshly: "Bishop Manning . . . [has] taken the wrong club out of his bag for an approach to the consecration of a co-operative bishop suffragan, or played an ineffective drive in his deliverance on the polity and program of the church needed...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian president of Union Theological Seminary, had been invited with other eminent Protestants to preach in the Church of the Ascension, one of Bishop Manning's charges. Last year Bishop Manning sternly forbade Dr. Coffin's performance of a communion service in another Manhattan Episcopal church, as ecclesiastically illegal. Dr. Coffin replied by inviting the Episcopalians to his own communion service at Union Theological. Last week he answered Bishop Manning by rescinding his assent to preach in the Church of the Ascension. His comment: "In view of Bishop Manning's sermon and the subsequent discussion, it seemed...