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...York City had but one Presbyterian church, the First, in Wall Street. Its congregation quarreled, among other things, over the new-fangled hymns of Isaac Watts. So the anti-Watts faction set up their own church in Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...Fifth Avenue's last two co-pastors, Dr. Henry Howard died in 1933 at 74 and Dr. Minot Canfield Morgan, 58, went that year to Greenwich (Conn.) First Presbyterian Church. To win back its prestige and fill once more its 2,000 seats, the Fifth Avenue Church knew it had to find pulsing new ministerial blood. Last week it thought it had done so when Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, 40, of Winnipeg, Manitoba accepted the congregation's unanimous call...
Twice during the past three weeks, Trenton, N. J.'s old, spired First Presbyterian Church became an ecclesiastical courtroom. Pious partisans for prosecution and defense filled its pews. The Moderator of the Presbytery sat as judge on the bench, gaveled lustily when spectators laughed. Counsel bickered, wrangled, thumbed through the Presbyterian Book of Discipline to decide niggling points of procedure. And in the church sat a man accused, indicted and liable to be rebuked, suspended or excommunicated...
...defendant was Philadelphia's Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, who for months had been volubly telling how Presbyterian Modernists were persecuting him and other Presbyterian "Bible-believers" (TIME, Dec. 31). The indictment, brought against him by the New Brunswick Presbytery which still claims his allegiance, was a six-point elaboration of the fact that he had defied his Church's orders to resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. The trial was limited by the Book of Discipline to one session every ten days. That it was even held publicly was a concession to Dr. Machen...
Protestant-But don't forget, Rabbi, that the Presbyterian Elder, Mr. Will Hays, is supposed to be the conscience of the motion picture...