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...Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century has fought like General Grant on one line: against President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his special ambassador to the Pope. Last week Dr. Morrison had fresh ammunition-a letter from Mr. Roosevelt to Dr. George. A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr. Buttrick, quoting a report from Rome, had tried to pin the President down as to whether Mr. Taylor had a permanent status, warned him of "a growing [Protestant] disillusionment which augurs ill for interfaith comity." Last week the Federal Council published...
...made it mad was thinking about one thing-President Roosevelt's Christmas appointment of Myron Charles Taylor as his personal ambassador to the Pope. The Christian Century disliked the appointment in the first place, liked it less when it appeared that the President had jockeyed Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, into a position of apparent sympathy. The Christian Century was further irritated when the executive committee of the Federal Council issued a statement which seemed to approve the appointment, provided it was temporary and unofficial. Last fortnight, when Dr. Buttrick and two other...
...been cheering to churchmen searchingfor signs of a U. S. religious revival. In the '20s, attendance dwindled: the conferences were abandoned when only 150 people turned out to hear Sherwood Eddy in 1926. When they were begun again last year, 800 went to hear Dr. George Arthur Buttrick. Last week's opener, despite the fact that it took place on a winter Sunday, drew...
...Federal Council felt that it had been jockeyed into a false position of apparent sympathy with the Taylor mission. Reason: the Council's President George Arthur Buttrick,* upon receiving the President's Christmas greeting and an invitation to consult periodically at the White House, had telegraphed immediate acceptance. Because Mr. Roosevelt explained that he was sending "a like greeting" to the Pope, Dr. Buttrick innocently added the Council's "cordial greetings to His Holiness. ..." The White House released this message simultaneously with the announcement of the Taylor appointment. Thus Dr. Buttrick, who knew nothing of the Taylor...
With this letter, sent also to the Rev. Dr. George A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Rabbi Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Mr. Roosevelt announced a significant appointment...