Thursday, September 26, 2013

AUBURN AFFIRMATIONISTS PROMINENT IN AGENCIES; GENERAL ASSEMBLY ROLL

The PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN
May 18, 1936


LATE studies of positions occupied by signers of the modernist "Auburn Affirmation" reveal that as a group they wield a wide official influence in the Church disproportionate to their total number. Recent compilations reveal Affirmationists at the 148th Assembly and in the Boards and agencies as follows:

ASSEMBLY COMMISSIONERS
(Listed with Presbyteries represented)
James W. Bean, Mahoning
C. Carson Bransby, Council Bluffs
Victor Bucher, Erie
George Cleaver, Chicago
John R. Duffield, Buffalo-Niagara
R. Worth Frank, Chicago
Clarence S. Gee, Marion
Bruce J. Giffen, Waterloo
B. A. Hodges, Waco
George C. Hood, Missionary Delegate
Arthur M. Hughes, Jersey City
James A. Hunsicker, Gunnison
Wm. Lloyd Imes, New York
Robert L. Irving, EI Paso
Howard W. Johnston, Chicago
Arthur R. Jones, Grande Ronde
William C. Kerr, Newark
Irving W. Ketchum, Washington City
Alva Vest King, Hastings
John J. Lawrence, Rochester
George O. Long, Sioux Falls
Ward Willis Long, San Francisco
Julius W. Mallard, Kiamichi
D. Alan Martens, Blairsville
Elmer Martin, Bloomington
Francis L. McCauley, Troy
Harry G. McCluskey, Nebraska City
Peter McKenzie, Otsego
Wm. Pierson Merrill, New York
Hugh A. Moran, Cayuga
Fred M. Newlin, Highland
William Owen, Blairsville
Lucian W. Scott, Buffalo-Niagara
Frederick L. Selden, Chicago
Robert S. Sidebotharn, Toledo
Albert D. Stearns, Syracuse
Arthur O. Stockbridge, Providence
David Thomas, Enid
Robert von Thurn, Ebenezer
Emery D. Webster, Rochester
H. W. Wylie, Utica

THE BOARD OF NATIONAL MISSIONS,
Philip S. Bird
Henry S. Coffin
William H. Boddy
Robert Freeman
George A. Buttrick
T. Guthrie Speers
R. Thomasen

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
Paul C. Johnston
Robert G. McGregor

THE BOARD OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
James E. Clarke
George A. Frantz

THE BOARD OF PENSIONS
Andrew Mutch
Jesse Halsey

THE GENERAL COUNCIL
E. Graham Wilson
William E. Brooks
Vice-Chairman William T. Paterson

Special Committee of Five
C.A. Spaulding
E.L. Douglas

SPECIAL COMMITEES IN CONSULTATION WITH GENERAL COUNCIL
George E. Barnes
Ralph C. McAfee
Edmund B. Chaffee

PERMANENT JUDICIAL COMMISSION
(There are only seven living ministers on the roll of the Permanent Judicial Commission since the death in Boston on April 25th, of the Rev. Robert Watson, who was not an Affirmotionist.)
Robert H. Nichols
Archibald Cardle
Herbert K. England
Floyd Poe

DEPARTMENT OF CHURCH CO-OPERATION
W. P. Merrill
P. C. Johnston

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
George E. Barnes
Edward Yates Hill

COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONFESSION OF FAITH
William T. Paterson

SPECIALCOMMITTEE TO VISIT PRESBYTERIES OF PHILADELPHIA AND CHESTER
George A. Frantz
Arthur Lee Odell

COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE MANUAL OF THE BOARD OF NATIONAL MISSIONS
Chairman Jesse Halsey
Paul W. Gauss

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