Presbyterian Windup

Under the brisk gavel of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, its new Moderator, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. wound up in Cleveland last week its annual General Assembly. Work done:

P:By a rising vote the commissioners adopted a plan of union, which cannot become final in less than two years, with the United Presbyterian Church of North America which has 1,121 congregations and 242,996 members. United Presbyterians are called "Psalm-Singers" because their church admits no hymns. Having voted this merger, the commissioners burst into the Doxology and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord."

P:The Assembly voted to repudiate the term "Modernist" which the Cleveland Plain Dealer had applied to it when it censured the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions last fortnight. "Conservative" being nearer its mood, it continued to flout the small faction of Fundamentalists in its midst. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, as clerk of the Assembly, despatched an airmail letter to the Independent Board in Philadelphia demanding a certified list of its officers and members, who by Assembly vote are now subject to discipline by their presbyteries.

P:The Assembly resolved against lynching, military training, liquor, salacious films and block booking (see below), private manufacture of munitions, the Immigration Exclusion Act of 1924, selfish moneymakers.

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