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Thus, a third time, did Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney-General of the U. S., do-her-bit for Hooverism before an audience of Ohio Protestants. The evening after delivering her message to the Methodists at Lorain (TIME, Oct. 1), she visited a Presbyterian men's club at Warren. A long quotation about Tammany Hall corruption a generation ago was part of the speech. She had looked it up in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She cried...
...Walker's own pastorate is the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. He is 66 years old and during his lifetime has been an increasingly potent advocate of Prohibition. In the long, well-considered, closely reasoned statement which he issued last week, he said: "More than 40 years ago I entered into the fight while a pastor in the South,* a section most conservative in the matter of mixing politics and religion. We were given the unqualified support of all good men, regardless of party, and no one ever intimated that we were doing anything more than our plain duty...
...things will pondering non-Presbyterians remember in considering Dr. Walker's pronouncements: 1) that the intellectual qualifications for entrance into the Presbyterian clergy are higher than those of many another church; 2) Presbyterians are proud of their traditionally (Scotch) sturdy individualism. Both points are illustrated in this case. Dr. Walker exhibited no Stratonian looseness; he made out a good case on a high plane. Nevertheless, Presbyterians will not all follow him sheeplike. Thus, three famed Presbyterians had already declared for Nominee Smith: Edward Stephen Harkness, Arthur Curtiss James, among the richest Presbyterians in the U. S., and Dr. Henry...
There were no indications, last week, that the ecclesiastical campaign for Hoover & Prohibition would abate. Days passed, and no great Presbyterian preacher promptly repudiated Dr. Walker. On the contrary, many applauded him. Indications were that the ecclesiastical campaign would grow in vigor...
...Dyke issued a smashing reply to Dr. Walker: "May a humble Presbyterian, who has himself held the honorable office of Moderator in that church be permitted to ask politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Volstead personally, but I am unwilling to believe that he is wiser or better than the Lord Jesus Christ, who not only used wine but . . . made...