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...Protestants were ever more zealous in faith, more peppery in talk, more beloved by their followers, than the late Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian Fundamentalist of Philadelphia. A rough-&-tumble polemicist and theologian, Dr. Machen spent a lifetime fighting what he called the "Modernist Machine" government of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He accused the Church of deserting its parent faith by questioning the divinity and resurrection of Christ, toning down essential doctrines ike the Blood Atonement. Result: Dr. Machen and his followers were read out of the Church, founded their own, which they called...
This small but vigorous "rebel" church, a vexation to the Presbyterian Church from which it split, was lately ordered by a Philadelphia court to give up its too-similar name (TIME, Jan. 31), but has continued to use it pending an appeal. Last week the rebel church was again thrown for a loss by a New Jersey court decision which had nationwide significance. New Jersey's Vice Chancellor Francis B. Davis ruled that although a rebel Presbyterian congregation could secede from the parent church, it could not take its church building-which it had paid for-along with...
...still own it. So could a Jewish congregation. A Congregational group has the same freedom, but the Congregational-Christian Church-like U. S. Baptist bodies-may hold mortgages on its constituent churches so that they may not pass out of its control. Methodist churches are held by national bodies; Presbyterian churches by local trustees, reverting to local presbyteries if they are dissolved. Church laws apart, State laws of incorporation may limit a church to the activities for which it was specifically incorporated...
...inducement to the congregation to move to Hampton Gardens, Mrs. William Smith Morton had offered her house and lot, worth $100,000, to St. Giles Presbyterian Church of Richmond. Other residents promptly got up a petition declaring they would not welcome a church because ''the peace and quiet of the locality would be disturbed . . . clustering of a large number of cars on Sunday would constitute a traffic inconvenience and hazard." To preserve their Sabbath peace, the Hampton Gardens Association thereupon voted. 51-to-7, against allowing St. Giles or any other church to build there...
...Presbyterians run 53 colleges in the U. S., maintain Presbyterian centres in 52 more. Outstanding Presbyterian colleges: Centre, Davidson, Hamilton, Lafayette, Washington & Jefferson.* Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Presbyterian Church (North), its Board of Christian Education intends to spend the next three years raising $10,000,000 for the endowment and running expenses of these 105 colleges and Presbyterian centres. Last week the Presbyterians announced that the first gift to their Sesquicentennial Fund came from an Episcopalian. Rt. Rev. Robert Lewis Paddock, retired bishop of Oregon, donated...