Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief difference between many Protestant churches lies not in theological antagonisms but in mere historical circumstances of establishment and growth. Consider, for instance, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. (national), the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (southern), the United Presbyterian Church of North America, the Reformed Church in America (Dutch Reformed), the Reformed Church in the U. S. (German Reformed). Not only are the three Presbyterian Churches practically identical in theology and government, and the Reformed Churches likewise, but the Presbyterian are very similar in both respects to the Reformed...
Just how similar they are became manifest last week in Pittsburgh, where some 1,000 delegates from these Churches, as well as certain smaller Presbyterian and Reformed denominations,* met for two days to sound out the possibility of uniting Presbyterian and Reformed Churches. They concluded that union was not only possible but highly probable...
Important among proponents of the union is stalwart, gracious Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, 62, of Manhattan, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, potent religious statesman and author, sire of pious offspring,* famed among a fond younger generation as "Weeping Bob" for his emotional sermons. Dr. Speer studied for the ministry, was never ordained, but was made a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in 1910. Thus he is still a layman. But at the conference he personified the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., by far the largest denomination present (estimated membership...
Said Dr. William James Reid, pastor of Pittsburgh's First United Presbyterian Church: "The spirit in which the delegates have come makes this conference one of limitless possibilities. This may be one of the historic gatherings in church annals...
...Craig intimated that his ousting might lead to the founding of another. Fundamentalist, churchpaper. Born on an Illinois farm, alumnus of Princeton University (1895) as well as Princeton Theological Seminary, he is now 55, has held various Pennsylvania pastorates, has been a staff member of The Presbyterian since 1915, its editor since...