Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less importance "down town." And, besides these, just people-one or two hundred thousand who live in tall medium-priced apartment houses within walking distance. Altogether it has been an "unchurched" community. The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine rises nearby and there is also a Fundamentalist Presbyterian church but otherwise there is little choice for Protestants. Dr. Fosdick proposes to give this educated community a place of greatest beauty for worship. He also proposes to serve the social needs of the somewhat lonely metropolite. Hence on a vast scale he has built all the accessories of a community...
...seven, when he experienced conversion and determined to become a foreign missionary. The circumstance was astounding only to himself, for his family and environment were religious. Foretaste of the interdenominationalism which he was to make world-famed, he had been baptized a Baptist (by immersion), later attended a Presbyterian Sunday School and a Methodist young people's society...
...teacher destined to receive much local kudos as long-time high school principal and later Superintendent of Education. Son Harry was the best pupil in town. He won countless prizes, especially for oratory. Once he & friends removed the clapper from a Methodist Church bell and, baffled by the Presbyterian clapper, left it wrapped up in their clothes. But such a prank, except for indicating energy-voltage, was not typical of young Scholar-Orator Fosdick. who knew what he wanted to do and was well on the road to doing...
Fourth Crisis. In 1924, Dr. Fosdick had been for some years a professor at Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church. Terrified by the advance of "Liberalism," conservative Presbyterians led by William Jennings Bryan, et al. styled themselves Fundamentalists and launched an attack to drive from the church all who did not subscribe literally to a few "fundamentals" such as Virgin Birth of Christ. Astute, they concentrated on Dr. Fosdick, since he was a Baptist and since, there- fore, they might win a victory by ousting him from a Presbyterian pulpit without actually having a "heresy" trial in which they were...
When Cyrus Stephen Eaton preached the Baptist gospel in Cleveland, it was seldom that his sermons received front-page space. Yet last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer front-paged the Sunday sermon of Rev. J. M. Russell, pastor of the Monroe Memorial United Presbyterian Church of Akron, Ohio. The reason: Mr. Russell's sermon was one of the most acrid attacks on the rubber industry yet heard, and many a Clevelander, especially Goodyear-controlling Mr. Eaton, has a stake in that industry...