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...first days in court Mrs. McCollum's lawyer called in a Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Lutheran, a Jehovah's Witness, a Quaker, a Fundamentalist, a Christian Scientist, to prove that Champaign's religious teaching discriminated against their faiths; but several of the witnesses said just the opposite. The school-board lawyers then tried to show that the issue was not between sects, but between religion v. atheism. They succeeded with Mrs. McCollum's father, Arthur G. Cromwell, who is president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished...
...super-modernistic Presbyterian Chapel in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains at Delaware Water Gap, to be equipped with movable seats and altars, whose arrangement will depend "upon the time of day, the position of the sun and the purpose of the meeting." The tower will contain a water tank...
Last week the Women's Auxiliary of the Alexandria (Va.) Westminster Presbyterian Church-of which General Vaughan is an elder-were enchanted to discover that he was as excitingly frank as he was informal. They had invited him to speak, and he spoke. By the time word of his speech got back to the capital, Washington wits cracked that they had now heard the uncensored dope on all topics of national interest...
Around the 110-year-old Presbyterian church, Bobby's 60-year-old father, Lance, tended the town's graveyard. Now & then he paused to look at a sign which read: Commit thy way unto the Lord. To friends he said: "If he did it, he was drove...
...Modernist position had seldom been stated so bluntly. A Fundamentalist Presbyterian group in Philadelphia accepted Fosdick's challenge and objected so insistently and so violently that the Presbyterian General Assembly was forced to ask Fosdick to become a Presbyterian. He refused, on the grounds that the ministry should not be a denominationally "closed shop...