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Last week the Presbytery of New Brunswick, N. J. started ouster proceedings against peppery Dr. John Gresham Machen, bellwether and chief name-caller of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Having declined to resign from the Board in accordance with the resolution his church passed against it (TIME, June 4, et seq.), Dr. Machen will presumably be brought to trial by the Presbytery, which last week appointed a committee to study the case. In the same situation was Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr. of the Chicago Presbytery. He was asked to resign or undergo a trial which "would involve...
Grace, the black sheep, is the stupid sixth child of an upright Scotch Presbyterian stone mason, whose wife died when Grace was 4. During school days Grace was "nervous" and "hard to manage." Men in the shoe factory, where she went to work at 16, found her easy prey. Promiscuity she did not realize was wrong. It was for her simply a means of getting to skating rinks, dance halls and cinemas. Grace and a friend named Edith had babies by casual sailors, gaily named their infants after each other. Grace's Edith, now 14, is beginning to show...
Carl, the elder son, finishes high school, graduates from a small Presbyterian college, marries Lillian, the home-town girl who has always adored him, and takes her off on his career of school superintendent. "The good son," he makes a success of his job, but away from the folks he falls under insidious influences. When he gets the chance to go East and work for a rich foundation he cannot understand why Lillian holds back; it takes her attempt at suicide to show him. Then Carl takes his defeat off to another small town, another small-town...
...Morgan Noyes, Central Presbyterian Church, Montclair...
Good reading, well selected, varied in mood and subject, an introduction to the great literature of the world--these facts account for the fame of that old-time Presbyterian college professor--"McGuffey." Those were the happy days. Boston Herald...