two hundred Fundamentalist tutional Covenant Union, to-voted to sever connections with the parent denomination, and announced the formation of a new church, the Presbyterian Church of America.
The convention elected the Rev.
Gresham Machen, head of the Westminster The'logieal Semi nary, as first Moderator" of its General Assembly.
The founders of the new church are' ministers and elders suspended by the recent General Assembly of the Presbysterian Church "of North America, in session at Syracuse, Differences between the Fundamentalist and Modernist groups of the parent church came to a head when a majority of Pres: byterian voted to ce-operate with other denominations in a worldwide missionary programme, a step violently opposed by the Fundamentalists, who then proceeded to send out their own independent missionaries to foreign countries. The parent church @eclared such missionaries unauthorized to represent the church, and demanded their recall.' The Fundamentaliste stood their ground, and the Suspension and founding of the new sect followed.—United Press.
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