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...brothers, now dead, who were graduated from Princeton in 1877, Judge Walter Lloyd-Smith and the Rev. Wilton Merle-Smith. The man was Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, intelligent, eloquent Congregationalist lately of Holyoke, Mass. For him the new office of Dean of the Chapel was created. Hitherto Princeton, traditionally Presbyterian, has had no official pastor...
Often enough in the past,, the annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. A. has been an unfortunate uproar concerned with such things as how a god can have a mortal father. Fundamentalists have blown and stamped, Modernists have scoffed and reasoned, Moderates have explained and pleaded. This year, the meeting in Tulsa, Okla., had a minimum of excursions and alarms. The Fundamentalists were apparently in sufficient majority to achieve victory in the things which lay nearest their hearts and Bibles; they could not, however, expect to work their wills upon every issue. They...
...first thing for the Presbyterians to do was to elect a moderator to succeed Dr. Robert E. Speer. This they did with rapidity on the first ballot. The new moderator is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This...
...forcibly demonstrated last week (TIME, May 21), was again emphasized when the bishops gave their approval to moves for merging the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Korea. With pleasure, they received messages from Congregationalist State Conventions which endorsed the proposed union of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. They learned, too, that in New York State the Congregationalists and the Disciples of Christ were planning a local merger which they hope later to make national...
...Conference approved a single commission of 37 members to represent their entire church in all unification discussions. The first of these will perhaps occur soon after the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Tulsa, Okla., next week, where a similar unity proposal will be discussed...