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...Presbyterians in the U. S. A. The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (largest Presbyterian body), concluded its General Assembly at Cincinnati in time for the clergy to return to their charges for Pentecostal services. Before they disbanded they decided...
Nonetheless Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee, retiring Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., went so far as to note that although "it is certain that for some reason, perhaps the Pentecostal spirit, church union is now a living issue," the hope of ecumenical union, including the Catholic group, seemed practically at an end, and that he was unaware of any valid steps having been taken during the past year, except in local situations, to encompass a Protestant union as a whole. Yet every minister of his organization, if he followed instructions, prayed and preached last Sunday...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. By union, division, reunion, more division, and more reunions, since before the American Revolution this sect has the greatest concentration east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers. Its churches spot the whole U. S., its missions the whole world. So largely were its communicants represented in the Revolution that to this church the articles of the U. S. Constitution have always been almost as sacrosanct as the tenets of the Westminster Confession. This attitude gave righteousness to the national loyalty commission which reported to the church General Assembly at Cincinnati...
Before that happened Dr. Hugh Thomp son Kerr of Pittsburgh, candidate to succeed Moderator Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee of Chicago, displayed his qualifications by an ingenious address. Dr. Kerr, 58, is pastor of Pittsburgh's Shadyside Presbyterian Church. The past five years, since the reorganization of his church's boards, he has been president of its board of Christian education. In Presbyterian theology neither the Liberal nor Conservative groups can claim him. He is a congenial "middle-of-the-roader." The last two years he gained reputation outside his denomination by daily radio talks over Westinghouse's station KDKA, including...
...from Avalon, his estate at Princeton, N. J., last week sallied Dr. Henry van Dyke, 77, Presbyterian, verbally to thrash Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 58, Methodist, for Dr. Wilson's insults to Dr. van Dyke's father, the late famed Dr. Henry Jackson van Dyke of Brooklyn. Dr. Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, had written a report, kept secret until dragged forth by the Senate Lobby Committee, on the Board's war against the "foes" of Prohibition before the 1928 presidential elections. Dr. van Dyke was perplexed to find himself...