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...traditional theology has taken a back-seat to political ideology, has not even done much back-seat driving. Reason: theologians, unlike political ideologists, have not known exactly where they want to go, nor how fast. Princeton Theological Seminary's President Dr. John Alexander Mackay, an articulate, lofty-minded Presbyterian with missionary experience, summed the matter up in his "historymaking" inaugural address at Princeton last year: "The new crusading religions (Fascism, Naziism, Communism) . . . are schooled in massive thought systems, which make the average Christians who come up against them feel like infants. . . . The churches must return to theology and begin...
This week the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. (the Northern body) issued a bit of pleasant warm-weather reading for its 1,953,734 communicant members. During its last fiscal year the church took in $40,551,108, an increase of $1,523,303 over the year before. Per capita donations rose $1.04, to $21.24. Presbyterian membership dropped 21,112 souls, but only on paper. At Eastertime 25,000 people usually join the church, and the past fiscal year, ending last March 31, did not include Easter...
...Thrice in the week the President greeted Swedish royalty. His welcome to Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, 55-year-old heir of 80-year-old King Gustaf V. took place in a sick room at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Three days before the President had stopped in heavy rain at Wilmington, Del. to help dedicate a monument by Sculptor Carl Milles to the settling there, three centuries ago, of the first Swedes and Finns in America, but the tall Crown Prince, painfully stricken at the last moment by a kidney stone, had to let his third...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
Meanwhile in Quarryville, Pa. met the small, Machenite Presbyterian Church in America. Its members elected as their Moderator a stiff-haired, stiff-backed Netherlander who was nominated as a man "on whom the mantle of Dr. Machen has to some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church...