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William Jennings Bryan is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Miami, Fla. Several presbyteries have made overtures to the General Assembly requesting that Mr. Bryan be appointed Moderator of the Assembly, which meets in Indianapolis on May 17. The avowed object is to precipitate a clash between those who accept evolution, upholding Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and those who do not. The expressed object is to " exclude from the pulpit of First Presbyterian Church in New York a Baptist preacher [Dr. Fosdick] whose teaching is not in accordance with the Westminster Confession...
...fight that would ensue should Mr. Bryan become Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly...
...Andrew D. White, Cornell President and Ambassador to Germany, wrote The Warfare of Science with Theology. Today Fosdick preaches their reconciliation, but this in turn arouses Machen of Princeton (Conservative Presbyterian) to prove that " liberalism" and Christianity are totally different religions with different roots in the past. The " Fundamentalists," Bryan leading, attack evolution, and Bishop Manning, although accepting evolution, must admonish Dr. Grant?he is not sure just for what. The Jews are similarly divided into " Orthodox" and " Free," and debate the relative sanctity of Saturday and Sunday...
...library waterproofed. The recent excitement in connection with the answers of various prominent men to the question, " What books would you like to have with you on a desert island?" has begun to quiet down. The chief impression left is one of bulk. Everything from the Encyclopedia to the Presbyterian Hymnal, the complete works of Shakespeare, and the dictionary have been proposed. Will Rogers favors the telephone directory...
...Hans Zinsser of New York, professor of bacteriology at Columbia University and bacteriologist of the Presbyterian Hospital, is to join the staff next autumn as professor of bacteriology and immunology. He served with the Red Cross expedition to Serbia in 1915 and during the war was a colonel in the Medical Corps, A. E. F. The other new appointment is that of Dr. Francis Howard Lahey of Boston as professor of clinical surgery...