Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, vicar of St. Paul's, Darlington, was the little clergyman's name. The story that he was very anxious for the press to believe was that of all the little clergymen in Britain who have chafed at their bishops' treatment of the Duke of Windsor, he alone thought of writing to Monts to offer his services to the Duke, whom he had never met. Explained Vicar Jardine's wife...
...REV.) WILLIAM CHARLES HEILMAX
...Among the 900 "commissioners" to the Assembly was one who had stayed away from its last meeting in Columbus four years ago, because of the "controversy and acrimony" he knew would arise over the schism led by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. This absentee was Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, moderate Presbyterian, sonorous orator, pastor of Old First Church in Newark, N. J. By last week the acrimony had subsided, Dr. Machen had died, his rebel church was rent by theological squabbles over millennialism,* and Dr. Foulkes turned up in Columbus as a commissioner. The Assembly was marked by businesslike...
Southern Baptists passed the usual resolutions on liquor, armaments, etc., added newer ones suggesting that "surely 16 is young enough" for girls to marry, and condemning smoking for women, preachers and other church workers. Unscheduled, a 28-year-old minister of Anniston, Ala. named Rev. Charles R. Bell Jr. arose to cry: "We must face the real issues of life. ... I cannot adopt such a weak report in a day when we are faced with hunger throughout the land. . . . Why is there nothing in this report condemning conditions among the sharecroppers . . . ? Starvation wages . . . ? You talk about the brotherhood...
Choice for President Clark's successor depended upon the perennial rivalry be tween Baptist liberals and Baptist Funda mentalists, and a Fundamentalist won this week. He was Rev. Earle Vaydor Pierce of Lake Harriet Church in Minneapolis, called a "co-operating Fundamentalist" , because he holds his noisy brethren in helps avoid open rows...