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...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. is the name of the Southern branch which last week met at Montreat, a staid resort in the mountains of North Carolina. The 400 delegates elected as moderator U. S. Circuit Judge Samuel Hale Sibley of Marietta, Ga. Graduated from the University of Georgia where he roomed with Eugene Black (now Governor of the Federal Reserve), Judge Sibley teaches Sunday School, is an able amateur carpenter...
...years ago when a poll was taken among Disciples of Christ (Campbellite) ministers as to the outstanding ones among them, Burris Jenkins was well up in the first ten. A denominational rebel like Alexander Campbell who broke away from the Seceder Presbyterian Church in Western Pennsylvania a century ago, he held an Indianapolis pastorate at 27, became president of that city's University in 1899 and of pious Kentucky University two years later. Not until he took his Kansas City pastorate in 1907 was Dr. Jenkins completely free and happy. A Y. M. C. A. worker and War correspondent...
...acquainted with the facts might assume from the article that those Presbyterians not allied with the so-called "Fundamentalist" group were automatically to be classed as "Liberals." This is not true, for there are thousands of the approximately 10,000 ministers of the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., who are true to every doctrine mentioned, i. e., Virgin Birth. Inspiration of the Scriptures, etc.. who nevertheless condemn the rebel Westminster...
...interests of accuracy, you should be reminded that in your article, in every place where the word ''Presbyterian'' is mentioned, referring to the denomination and the official recognized Board of Foreign Missions, that the full name is "The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America."' There are twelve denominations in this country holding the Presbyterian system of doctrine. . . . The Presbyterian Church in the United States, . . . frequently confused with our church, . . . has a membership of about 500,000, while the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., has over 2,000,000 members...
...Hyde Park Presbyterian Church Boston, Mass...