Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abroad are creating mutual suspicions among religious groups here," urged "Americans of all races and creeds to abjure attempts to arouse one group of the population against another and to reject all propaganda directed against the reputation of any group." The Rev. Dr. Everett Ross Clinchy, a tactful, affable Presbyterian who is N. C. J.C.'s director, reported: "Jewish leaders are considerably worried over the emergence of anti-Semitism among Catholics. Jews are being increasingly attacked in the Catholic press and in Catholic meetings as Communists, in part because of the sympathy of some Jews with the Loyalist side...
Probably the most powerful single post in any U. S. Protestant church is that of Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. "Stated" or settled in his post, the Clerk nominally holds office for five years, but the terms of the last two, Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts and Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, totaled 56 years. At the annual Assemblies of the church, the Moderator (elected for one year) presides, but between times the Stated Clerk, resident in the "Presbyterian Vatican" in Philadelphia's musty old Witherspoon Building, directs the activities of the church...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
...Charles Whitefield Welch of Louisville, Ky., the Southerner who will head the Northern Presbyterians for the next year, is slight, sandy-haired, 60, and probably the only man who ever combined the two jobs of Presbyterian Moderator and railway brakeman. Once a bobbin boy in a Kentucky mill, he earned money for his education by working on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, still keeps his union card by making two runs a year, in uniform, from Louisville to Bowling Green. Theologically a moderate, Moderator Welch has been pastor of Louisville's Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church since...
Welcoming the issue which his election underlined. Moderator Welch said: "The Kingdom of God would be greatly advanced by the union not only of Presbyterianism but of all evangelical bodies in this country. It should take place at once." A candidate for union which is both evangelical and Catholic is the Episcopal Church. Last autumn the Episcopal General Convention invited Presbyterians to join in accepting a broad statement of faith in Jesus Christ, the Bible, the sacraments of baptism and Communion (see p. 54). Last week the Presbyterian Assembly, almost unanimously, voted acceptance. Commissions of both churches have already begun...