Word: speers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missionaries. It was considered most appropriate that Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, a potent missionary, should make his first formal speech as new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church before his Foreign Mission Board, which held its 30th annual conference in Manhattan. Said he: "All over the world today we see the breaking down of all other religions. And now it is going to be the Christian religion or no religion whatever. It is a clear issue between Christianity and agnosticism...
Moderator Speer, 60 years old, traveled, learned, politic, succeeded Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president-emeritus of Ohio State University...
...candidates decided for Dr. Speer...
Next morning the general assembly followed the dictates of factional leaders and elected Dr. Speer moderator...
Moderator Thompson's great problem last year was to dampen the shoutings of Presbyterians who interpreted their creed differently and sincerely. Presbyterian legalists learned a new patience last year for Presbyterian humanists; humanists tolerated the behavior of legalists. As a result Moderator Speer can give his energies to Church administration instead of to pacification...