Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writers in any country can be so urbanely charming as Maurice Baring when he sets his mind to it. Some of his books have been more ambitious than Friday's Business but none is more delightful. A modern Prince Otto without the Presbyterian implications, this tale of an imaginary European country is so detachedly and lightly told that even its theatrically tragic end brings only smiles of applause...
Another TiME-bearing cornerstone is that of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church, containing the issue of Nov. 7, 1932 (cover picture: Common Citizens...
...less vehement was Rev. Dr. Clarence Edward Noble Macartney of Pittsburgh, leading Presbyterian conservative. To suggestions (mostly by liberals) that Assembly money could better be spent on good works at home, he replied with fine Scotch logic that the only legal way to omit the Assembly would be to have it meet in full special session, decide that it should not be held. Added he: "What a year for the Assembly! Think of the witness we can make! There is the pagan Laymen's Missionary Report, and our own board's answer to it, with no ringing word...
...dissident last week was Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, 55, pastor of Newark's Old First Church. He-a member of Presbyterian boards and committees, a sonorous orator and middle-of-the-road theologian-declined to attend the Assembly or allow himself to be considered a candidate for Moderator, on the grounds that "acrimony" or "controversy" might result. A possible source for acrimony is that Dr. Foulkes is a member of the potent Presbyterian General Council, which has been accused of running things high-handedly...
Last month Author Linklater stood for Parliament as Scottish Nationalist candidate in East Fife, Scotland. His Juan in America, whose rogue's progress in the U. S. contained many an amorous interlude, so offended Scotch Presbyterian morals that Candidate Linklater polled only 1 ,000 of 30,000 votes cast...