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...British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing, no matter how expert. He wanted proteges who, like himself, would be willing to devote a lifetime to church and choral music. In 1926, encouraged by Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, he started the Westminster Choir...
Under the brisk gavel of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, its new Moderator, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. wound up in Cleveland last week its annual General Assembly. Work done...
...rising vote the commissioners adopted a plan of union, which cannot become final in less than two years, with the United Presbyterian Church of North America which has 1,121 congregations and 242,996 members. United Presbyterians are called "Psalm-Singers" because their church admits no hymns. Having voted this merger, the commissioners burst into the Doxology and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord...
...Assembly voted to repudiate the term "Modernist" which the Cleveland Plain Dealer had applied to it when it censured the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions last fortnight. "Conservative" being nearer its mood, it continued to flout the small faction of Fundamentalists in its midst. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, as clerk of the Assembly, despatched an airmail letter to the Independent Board in Philadelphia demanding a certified list of its officers and members, who by Assembly vote are now subject to discipline by their presbyteries...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. (Northern) met in Cleveland. Its official host was the 114-year-okl Old Stone Presbyterian Church on the Public Square, but the 2,000 laymen and clerical commissioners held their meetings in Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Fundamentalists went to Cleveland brandishing threats. Liberals and moderate conservatives squelched them in electing a moderator, in dealing with their "Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions," and this week were expected to trounce them in voting a merger with the United Presbyterian Church. Out of a field of three, Dr. William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia was elected...