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The committee on credentials recommended that Dr. Woelfkin and his associates be seated, on the grounds that, whatever might be said against Dr. Fosdick, he was not yet in control; and Dr. Woelfkin and his church had long been in good standing. So the Park Avenue delegation was seated—by vote of 912 to 364, another victory for the Modernists.
Thereupon the Fundamentalists announced: 1) That they would seek to form a new missionary society in conformity with their ideas; 2) that they would propose a by-law to outlaw the Park Avenue Church in the future.
When the election of officers took place, Edwin H. Rhoades, a Toledo lawyer, was chosen to succeed onetime (1917-21) Governor Carl E. Milliken of Maine as President of the Conference—and Dr. Woelfkin was chosen to serve on the Ministers' and Missionaries' Benefit Board.
On Earth, Peace.
* Including the divine and direct creation of man in the image of God; the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments; the certain deity of Jesus Christ involving his virgin birth, his sinless life, his sacrificial death, his bodily resurrection and ascension to the right hand of God and his return.
Catholics
There are 20,738,447 Roman Catholics in the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church has gained 10,608,770 members in the last 25 years. So said The Catholic Press Directory, issued last week in Chicago.