Religion: In Grand Rapids

Its annual assembly showed the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. to have as able a body of men as ever conducted a Church. The Fundamentalists had all the fun of winning, but they did not win. The unshakable Fundamentalist majority elected its ticket headed by Moderator Macartney and Vice Moderator Bryan (TIME, June 2). They appointed old line conservatives to all leading committeeships. They drew blood, for they cast William P. Merrill, a liberal, out from the Foreign Mission Board to which he had lent distinction for twelve years. But all this was...

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