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Said Lady Astor to the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, an appreciative audience...
...Smith had the support of Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Pittsburgh and of other uncompromising Presbyterian Fundamentalists. Dr. Speer declared that he would not accept election unless it came as a "call," by acclamation...
Moderator Thompson's great problem last year was to dampen the shoutings of Presbyterians who interpreted their creed differently and sincerely. Presbyterian legalists learned a new patience last year for Presbyterian humanists; humanists tolerated the behavior of legalists. As a result Moderator Speer can give his energies to Church administration instead of to pacification...
Princeton Seminary. At Princeton Theological Seminary Dr. Gresham Machen and Dr. Charles R. Erdman had maintained a bitter imbroglio for years. Dr. Machen, a stricter Presbyterian theologian than Dr. Erdman, had been named to the Chair of Apologetics at the Seminary. Of Dr. Machen's intellectual qualifications there was never a quibble. But Dr. Erdman fought the appointment on personal grounds...
Authority. The general assembly decided definitely that a Presbyterian licensed to preach was responsible only to his single church; that a Presbyterian ordained was responsible only to his presbytery; that the general assembly could not properly interfere with the domestic affairs of the presbyteries. The general assembly thus considers itself representing a confederation of presbyteries...