Monday, Feb. 23, 1925

Princeton

Clarence Edward Macartney is a Philadelphia preacher of repute; is, as Moderator, this year's official exemplar of Presbyterianism; is, among other ecclesiastical desirabilities, a director of the Princeton Theological Seminary; is, pronouncedly, a Fundamentalist. To Princeton's theological alumni, at their annual foregathering, he addressed himself, said:

"Princeton Theological Seminary has long been the despair of the liberal theologians and all the sons of restatement and reinterpretation, which, being interpreted, means evacuating the New Testament doctrines of their Christian meaning. They would rend the heavens with a shout if they thought that Princeton Theological Seminary shook in a single stone of its ancient foundations. This noble nursery of faith and piety and the other evangelical seminaries of the Presbyterian Church are the hope of the Church for tomorrow. If these fountains be poisoned, then woe to the Church!"