Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read them and are given a Buchan history of the World War-sound, patriotic, safe stuff. For 25 years John Buchan has been an elder in a Scottish church in London. When informed of his appointment as Lord High Commissioner he said: "I am going to be a dour Presbyterian...
...Columbus, Ohio last week met 1,500 U. S. Presbyterians in their annual General Assembly. Fundamentalists had come bringing threats, chief among them Dr. John Gresham Machen of Philadelphia who last month stirred up the row leading to the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as a mission teacher in China (TIME, May 8). Since then Dr. Machen had flayed Mrs. Buck for an "antiChristian propagandist,'' excoriated the Presbyterian Foreign Missions board for its "Yes-&-No" attitude, called everybody names including even much-revered Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer whom, by implication, he called "dishonest" and "evasive...
...news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: ¶ To the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck from Presbyterian foreign mission work in answer to charges of heresy (TIME, May 8); the resignation of Mrs. Henry V. K. Gillmore from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, commendation of Mrs. Buck by the Middle Atlantic Conference of Congregational and Christian Churches...
Sectarianism is a lasso to trip up and hobble high church and low church Episcopalians. In 1929 Bishop William Thomas Manning stoutly refused to permit a Christian Unity League service in St. George's Church, Manhattan, because Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin was to have helped officiate. Bishop Manning and other strict Episcopalians hold tightly to Apostolic Succession, refusing to accept sacraments administered by other sectarians. Year ago in St. Louis Cathedral was held another Christian Unity League service. Genial Bishop Frederick Foote Johnson (called "Shorty" because he is towering tall) and his Liberal Bishop Coadjutor William Scarlett were...
...Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose an opportunity to inculcate good old-fashioned morality, embodying principles of decency and respect for individual personality and clean-mindedness." Testified one of her former pupils: "Miss Hannah always told me never to swear or drink...