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...whether it be Baptist, Presbyterian or lay, knows well that here is a leader that knows his business, his mind. He is definite and outspoken. Last year he was offered the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church,* at Park Avenue and 64th St., Manhattan, from which Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin had retired. Dr. Fosdick accepted the call, with the following stipulations: that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity (Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians and the like); that Baptist rites and doctrine be not insisted upon; that his salary shall not exceed $5,000; that...
...Bible Class of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. They were to hear reports of the committee on the new church on Riverside Drive. Close to Mr. Rockefeller were Bruce Barton;* Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation; Alderwoman Mrs. John T. Pratt; Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, onetime pastor of the congregation; and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor...
...second question, the Fundamentalists attacked Dr. Fosdick and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (pillar of the Park Avenue Church), as well as Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the church. Dr. Woelfkin will retire when Dr. Fosdick assumes the pastorate next January, but the question was of unseating the pastor because of his rich parishioner (Rockefeller) and his prospective successor. The Fundementalists in caucuses proposed "a continent-wide war to emancipate the Baptist denomination from the deathlike grip of the powerful combination of Mammon and Modernism," and asked: "Shall the Baptist denomination become the religious department of the Standard Oil Company...
...mothers of Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, retiring pastor, and of his wife, Lillie Distler Woelfkin...
...Inclusiveness" was acceptable to the retiring pastor, Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., to other deacons and trustees of the church...