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...Smith had the support of Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Pittsburgh and of other uncompromising Presbyterian Fundamentalists. Dr. Speer declared that he would not accept election unless it came as a "call," by acclamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...candidates decided for Dr. Speer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...little band of tired Presbyterians closed themselves in a San Francisco room last week. In the room were Dr. Robert E. Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; J. Willison Smith, Philadelphia banker; Will H. Hays, cinema tsar. Each was a candidate for moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, which was holding its 139th general assembly at San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...should uphold a starving man who stole food to keep himself alive." Commentators listed in the Bishop's support Victor Hugo, whose nun in Les Miserable-; told with the author's approval her first lie, for hounded Jean Valjean. Otherside supporters recalled famed Presbyterian evangelist Robert Elliott Speer's sermon The Margin of Safety, in which, admitting that the dividing line between Evil and Good is often hard to determine, he held that therefore good Christians would keep well on the side of good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quibbles | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...distinguished list of speakers, among them J. Stitt Wilson, Robert E. Speer, Henry Sloane Coffin, John R. Mott, Henry Hallam Tweedy, Robert P. Wilder, S. Wirt Wiley, James L. McConaughy, Francis P. Miller has been arranged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORTHFIELD LISTS ARE STILL OPEN AT P. B. H. | 6/11/1926 | See Source »

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