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...Henry Sloane Coffin, Manhattan divine, returned from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Columbus, Ohio. From his pulpit, he declared he would rather submit his conscience to the tyranny of the Pope than to the tyranny of a General Assembly. His devoted congregation prepared to gasp, but quickly found itself smiling when the pastor added: "I never thought I would turn to the Roman Pontiff for liberty...
...Manhattanite. Graduated from Yale at the age of 20 with highest honors, he struck out from the ancestral paths, plunged into the ministry, and was soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation in Manhattan. Meanwhile, it had been a pioneer in the erection of a model Church House for boys' clubs and the like...
...issue is whether the Presbyterian shall be, like the Roman Catholic, a church of hard and fast dogma, unalterably decreed by the head of the Church, or whether it shall be a Church including in its membership all those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as their divine Lord and Master and who desire to do His will...
...Columbus, Ohio, a Princeton Theological Seminary professor, Dr. Charles R. Erdman, received, by election, the post of Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. It was the happy ending of a year of personal unpleasantness.* When the General Assembly of the Church met at Grand Rapids, Mich., a year ago, Dr. Erdman was the leading candidate. A Conservative, he was supported by Conservatives. He was also supported by Liberals - for it is the strategy of Liberals not to seek the office of Moderator for one of 'themselves, but to have the office filled by a man who will maintain...
...defense-suave Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, cynical Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Perhaps England's H. G. Wells would send a message. Curious hundreds would be sure to jostle for a glimpse of the mournful Bryan, whose moans were loud in the land as, defeated on a Presbyterian issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism." With a snarl or two at Chattanooga, who seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made ready. The Progressive Club "drove" for $5,000 for additional publicity. A drug store re-named itself "Monkeyville Soda Fountain...