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Murdered. Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster of the Northfield (Mass.) Mount Hermon School for Boys, son of Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; by a shotgun discharged through his study window by an unknown assailant...
...space in them. (Exception: the homey, nondenominational Christian Herald.) With theological controversy and petty driblets of church news as his stock-in-trade, the religious editor must cut his thoughts to a consistent pattern. And of all denominations the one whose journalists are the most orthodox is the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Its magazines are: The Presbyterian (conservative weekly), The Presbyterian Ban ner (middle-of-the-road weekly), Christianity Today (arch-Fundamentalist monthly) and The Presbyterian Advance. The last, a journal founded 24 years ago, has, like many another church paper, accumulated a handsome deficit...
...Theological Seminary, got a Manhattan pastorate in 1916 which he promptly lost because of his pacifism. Mr. (as he prefers to be called) Chaffee served in Jerusalem as a Red Cross captain. When he returned to the U. S. he took the job he still holds-director of the Presbyterian Labor Temple on Manhattan's radical 14th Street. Founded by the New York Presbytery which, to the great pain of its conservative members, foots half its bills, the Labor Temple is a forum for people of all sects. Because "people who are willing to work among Labor should live...
Though Methodists and Congregationalists are more famed for radical zeal, there are nevertheless plenty of Presbyterian liberals. To those members of his great, cautious, rock-like church Editor Chaffee will address himself, avoiding theological controversy. Says he: "We seek unity in the Presbyterian Church, not divisions." Guided by a council of able Manhattan pastors, The Presbyterian Tribune will be backed by Presbyterians whose names he declines to reveal...
...genuinely religious as Elliott Speer was when he entered the drinking, carousing Princeton of Scott Fitzgerald was to be cynically labeled a "Christer." At that time his Princetonian father. Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, world-traveled senior secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, was at the height of his fame as the most powerfully emotional preacher of his day. Classmates who met Elliott Speer five years out of college found an affable young man no less religious but well-geared to his own generation. Northfield quickly felt his liberalizing touch. He allowed his boys to smoke, to have parties...