Gordon Clark: [New Sect Formed By Presbyterians After Secession] (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

1935. [New Sect Formed By Presbyterians After Secession]. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jun 6.

Fundamentalists Launch Own Denomination; Way Paved for Others

A new denomination, the Presbyterian Church of America, was formally launched yesterday afternoon by a group of members of the fundamentalist wing at the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Thirty-three clergymen, 15 of them from this city and its environs, and 16 elders renounced their connections with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and affiliated with the new organization.

A brief statement of doctrine, to serve as a basis until a more complete statement has been approved, was adopted unanimously and Rev Dr. J. Gresham Machen, head of Westminster Theological Seminary, this city, and the central figure in the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the past several years, was elected first Moderator of the first General Assembly of the new organization.

The new denomination, long predicted, was created at a convention of the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union, held at the New Century Club, 124 S. 12th st. Upon the organization of the new group, the Union voted to dissolve and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of American immediately convened, and will remain in session until Sunday night.

Makes Third Group

In addition to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., which has some 2,000,000 members and 10,000 ministers throughout the country, already in existence is the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., usually referred to as the Presbyterian Church, South.

Declaration of Principles

"We do solemnly declare (1) that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice, (2) that the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms contain the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scripture, and (3) that we subscribe to and maintain the principle of Presbyterian Church government as being founded upon and agreeable to the Word of God," the statement of doctrine said.

'All persons, before they shall be ordained or received as ministers or ruling elders or deacons, shall subscribe to the foregoing statement."

The names of several men prominent in the fundamentalist cause were not included in the list of those who have affiliated with the new denomination. It was explained that in many cases special reasons had compelled them to delay their secessions and that they might act later.

Clergymen who immediately joined the Presbyterian Church of America were:

Rev. John Burton Thwing, pastor of the Knox Presbyterian Church, 2216 E. Cumberland st. This congregation had previously severed its connections with the parent denomination.

Rev. Bruce F. Hunt, of this city, a missionary to Korea.

Rev. Dean W. Adair, assistant pastor of Bethel Church, this city.

Rev. Dr. Charles J. Woodbridge, general secretary of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions.

Rev. Ned B. Stonehouse, assistant professor of Westminster Seminary.

Rev. George W. Martson, of Oxford, Pa.

Rev. Franklin Dyrness, pastor of Chestnut Level Church, Quarryville, Pa.

Rev. David Freeman, of Grace Church, 22nd and Federal strs.

Rev. Paul Woolley, professor of church history at Westminster Seminary.

Rev. Kelly Grier Tucker, of Port Kennedy, Pa.

Rev. Robert Moody Holmes, of Faith Church, 68 st. and Lindergh blvd.

Rev. Cornelius Van Til, of Lianerch, Pa.

Dr. H. McAllister Griffiths, editor of the Presbyterian Guardian.
Rev. Allan A. MacRea, assistant professor at Westminster Theological Seminary.
Rev. Allan A. MacRea, of Westminster Seminary.
Rev. Edwin H. Rian, secretary of Westminster Theological Seminary.
Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., president of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
Rev. Luther Craig Long, New Haven, Conn.

Rev. Edward L. Wade, of Windham, N.Y.

Rev. Clifford S. Smith, of Bridgeton, N. J.

Rev. J. Mulder Koogers, of Athens, Wis.

Rev. Robert L. Atwell, of Harrisville, Pa.
Rev. Robert J. Vaugh, of Chicago, Ill.
Rev. Samuel J. Allen, of Carson, N.D.
Rev. Frank Hamilton, of Ventnor, N. J.
Rev. Everett C. De Veida, of New Park, Pa.
Rev. Henry G. Welbon, of Newark, Del.
Rev. Leslie W. Sloat, of Ridgeway, N.Y.
Rev. Peter De Riuter, of Nottingham, Pa.
Rev. Arthur F. Perkins, of Meirill, Wis.

Rev. Philip du B. Arcularius, of Duryea, Pa.

Rev. Robert H. Graham, of Middleton, Del.

Rev John P. Clelland, of Wilmington, Del.

About 250 persons, fewer than half of them women, attended the meeting at the New Century Club. About 45 clergymen were in the gathering. Dr. Griffiths serves as temporary moderator until the election of Dr. Machen, who was at one time a member of Princeton Theological Seminary

Score Present Church

Following the dissolution of the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union, the first action taken was formally to constitute the new denomination "to maintain what we believe to be the true spiritual succession of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., which we hold to have been abandoned by the present organization of that body."

The General Assembly was then constituted and the statement of doctrine was adopted unanimously. It was agreed that the roll of charter members of the new denomination shall be kept open to receive the names of those who may affiliate later.

While details of the organization are still to be acted upon, Dr. Griffiths said elders of congregations now in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. will continue as elders in the new denomination, but their active exercise of the office will depend upon whether the new congregation elects them.

Can't Take Property

At another point, Dr. Griffiths expressed the belief that the General Assembly will provide that title to physical property will be held by the individual congregations. There was applause at this point, and it was explained that congregations withdrawing from the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. cannot take the property with them.

Dr. Machen was nominated for the office of moderator of the General Assembly by Dr. Gordon H. Clark, of the philosophy department of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Clark referred to the secession as "a complete severance from a corrupt and apostate organization," declared that "no Christian of this age has been so slandered and maligned as Dr. Machen" and lauded him as a Christian, scholar and gentleman.

Mr. Woolley was elected stated clerk of the General Assembly, also without opposition.

Attack on "Heresy"

Dr. Machen presided at a session in the evening at which Mr. Rian and Mr. Woodbridge were the speakers.

Mr. Rian, after sketching the history of Presbyterianism from the 16th century, urged that the new denomination strengthen, rather than weaken, the Calvinism of the Confession of Faith, that it merge with no bodies with confessions other than of a reformed nature, that it "root out heresy" and that it "shun complacency and self-righteousness."

As general secretary of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, Mr. Woodbridge criticized operations of the official Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

The Independent Board, which functioned in rivalry with the official board, was the focus of the final controversy which led to the secession.

"Some of us are sure to endure physical suffering for our stand for the Gospel," Mr. Woodbridge said. "Some of you already have experienced it. Some are losing their church buildings and their salaries."

Business sessions will be resumed this morning and a mass meeting will be held tonight at Spruce Street Baptists Church, 50th and Spruce sts.

Gordon Clark: [Speaker Hits Degeneration of Civilization] (Pasadena Independent)

1951. [Speaker Hits Degeneration of Civilization]. Pasadena Independent. Jan 30.

Speaking to a capacity audience in Lake Avenue Congregation Church last night, Dr. Gordon H. Clark, head of the philosophy department at Butler University, began his series of Payton Lectures on "The Christian View of Men and Things" with a warning that "we cannot read history in terms of progress."

"Civilization inevitably degenerates" the lecturer, speaking at the invitation of Fuller Theological Seminary, told his hearers. He added the sober caution that "only a Christian view enables one to escape complete pessimism."

The address, titled "The Christian View of History," was the first in a series of five, and was attended by clergymen and students from many parts of the Los Angeles area, as well as by the seminary student body.

The remaining lectures will be given daily, but are scheduled in the church auditorium at 10 a.m., to coincide with the divinity school's chapel service. Open to the public, today's lecture will be on "The Christian View of Politics."

Dr. Clark, whose writings in philosophy and ethics have appeared in numerous scholastic journals, is the author of several technical works in those fields. He is considered one of the outstanding contemporary scholars in the area of Neo-Platonism.

Lecture topics for the remainder of the week, as announced by the Indiana philosopher, are as follows: Wednesday, "The Christian View of Ethics"; Thursday, "The Christian View of Religion"; Friday, "The Christian View of Epistemology."

Gordon Clark: [Sees Enemies of God Within the Church] (The News Journal)

1935. [Sees Enemies of God Within the Church]. The News Journal. Oct 2.

"Enemies of God have attached the gospel in all ages. Today they are within the church itself" Professor Gordon H. Clark, of the department of philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania, said last night at First and Central Presbyterian Church in a lecture sponsored by the Layman's Fundamentalist Association.

Dr. Clark praised the association as an example and an inspiration to Fundamentalists throughout the country.

Dr. Clark was introduced by Professor James A. Barkley of the University of Delaware. Ernest R. Robinson presided.

Gordon Clark: [Modernism Rapped by Presbyterians] (The Daily Journal)

1935. [Modernism Rapped by Presbyterians]. The Daily Journal. Apr 12.

Wheaton College President Protests Prosecution of Fundamentalists

Modernism in the Presbyterian Church and the Independent Board of Foreign Missions were attacked last evening during a mass meeting in the First Presbyterian Church, Eighth street and Landts avenue. A total of 400 attended the service-meeting during which a complete resume of the present situation in the Presbyterian Church at large was outlined by Rev. J. Oliver Buswell, Dr., president of Wheaton College, Ill.

After expressing his gratitude that he was a Presbyterian minister, Rev. Mr. Buswell declared forcefully that he could not support the Auburn Affirmation, and that he was definitely opposed to the prosecution of ministers because they had stood by their Scripture teachings and refused to accept modernistic theories. He recommended reading the pamphlet of Rev. Carl McIntire, Collingswood minister who was tried for disobedience to the Presbytery. The pamphlet attacks modernism in the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church and answers Rev. Robert E. Speer's explanations of the Auburn Affirmation. These latter explanations, in the speaker's opinion, were ridiculous as they definitely opposed teachings of the Bible that had been accepted by orthodox Presbyterians many years ago.

The speaker declared that the Auburn Affirmation was the root of all the disruption. He explained its theories declaring that five of the Presbyterians' most deepest beliefs, keynotes of their religion, were doubted and the word of the Scriptures was indirectly termed as false.

Gordon H. Clark of the Philosophy Department of the University of Pennsylvania, was also guest speaker during the meeting. He terms the Auburn Affirmation "a major offensive against the Word of God." He also declares that five doctrines of Presbyterian belief were involved in the teachings of the Auburn Affirmation. All five are important phases of the religion of orthodox Presbyterians and that God's word was being doubted, he stated. He declared "there could be no peace within the church without purity, unless the people desired to sit back and enjoy peace with Satan."

The speaker asserted that many prominent Presbyterian ministers, most of whom held offices in the Presbytery, had affixed their names to the Auburn Affirmation. He referred those persent to a small pamphlet, distributed during the service, which contained the names of Presbyterian ministers who had added their names to the list.

A. F. Miller, or Norristown, who has been elected as chairman of a committee to organize church members in their opposition to Auburn Affirmation, reported that radio broadcasts, described the Affirmation in detail, would be given over a Pittsburgh station, and over WIP, in Philadelphia, and WMCA, in New York. He stated that the broadcasts would take place the first three Fridays in May at 9 P. M.

Samuel Iredell, of Bridgeton, presided over the session and introduced the speakers. He introduced Rev. John T. Hockett, of the Irvin Avenue Presbyterian Church, Bridgeton, who read the invocation; Rev. Alexander K. Davison, who offered prayer; Rev. Leonard Pitcher, of the Wildwood Presbyterian Church, who read Scripture; Rev. J. U. S. Toms, of Woodstown, who gave the benediction, and Donald Graham, who led the group singing.

Gordon Clark: [Model For Politicians]. (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

 1935. [Model For Politicians]. The Cincinnati Enquirer. May 25.

Fundamentalist Says of Presbyterian Assembly "Machine"

"City politicians can learn a good deal from the workings of the Presbyterian machine," Dr. Gordon H. Clark, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, told Cincinnati alumni at the Hotel Netherland Plaza yesterday.

A fundamentalist leader, Dr. Clark added, "We are in process of being flattened out, and having duly elected Commissioners put out of the Assembly, and our motions ruled out of order."

Dr. Clark is a Commissioner of the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Presbyterian General Assembly now meeting in Cincinnati.

George A. Huggins, President of the '02 class, urged members to attend the boat races at Marietta, Ohio, next Saturday in which the University of Pennsylvania will participate.

Plans for the annual planting of ivy at Walnut Hills High School June 4 were completed.

Gordon Clark: [New Presbyterian Denomination Formally Instituted in Phila. as Climax of Long Dispute.] (The Morning Post)

1936. [New Presbyterian Denomination Formally Instituted in Phila. as Climax of Long Dispute.] The Morning Post. Jun 12.

Step Taken as Protest Against Action of Parent Church in Condemning Leaders of Fundamentalist Movement; McIntire Approves Move

The Presbyterian Church of America was instituted formally yesterday as a new and independent religious denomination. Ministers, elders and laymen took the step in Philadelphia in protest against what they declared high-handed methods of leaders of the parent Presbyterian Church of the United States of America.

The action came shortly after 3 p.m. when Rev. Dr. H. McAllister Griffiths, acting chairman and moderator of a meeting at the Century Club, Twelfth street below Sansom, said:

"I declare the Presbyterian Church of America to be the lawfully constituted church of the Lord Jesus Christ."

He was answered by a loud chorus of amens from the 200 assembled clergymen and delegates. Approximately 75 of the delegates, representing as many churches, indicated they will join the new denomination

Climax of Long Dispute

The decision to form the new church marks a climax in the dispute which has raged within the Presbyterian Church for more than a decade. Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, a leader in the movement named moderator.

Dr. Machen's election was unanimous, and followed immediately the formation of the new church by militant Fundamentalist ministers opposing Modernism.

Steps leading to the formation with its creed were set forth in a series of statements by Dr. Griffiths, editor of the Presbyterian Guardian and secretary of the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union.

McIntire Favors Action

Rev. Carl McIntire, pastor of the Collingswood Presbyterian Church, recently suspended by the General Assembly for failure to resign from the Independent Board of Foreign Missions, also spoke in favor of the dissolution.

The motion calling for dissolution was made by Rev. Dr. John B. Thwing, pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.

In the keynote address of the meeting by Dr. Griffiths the new group was compared to Luther's rebellion.

"We have always envied the martyrs of old their chance to die for Christ as a test of their faith," he said. "You will not be called upon to die, but you will be called upon to stand persecution. Undoubtedly they will hound us. When I say they, I will have no doubt you all know whom I mean.

"We are a minority so small that the world may laugh at us, and despise us, but we are more than a minority, we are a group that is needed. There is need in this pagan world of some force to oppose those who would say they are the sole interpreters of God's word."

Speaking of the principles of the Fundamentalists, he said:

"God is the Bible, and one can't be disloyal to the Bible and loyal to God. God's Word is superior to everything. There can be no neutrality. The man who stands neutral is against God."

New Sect Proposed

The resolution to dissolve the Covenant Union, and substitute a new denomination, with a name yet to be decided upon, was introduced by Dr. Gordon H. Clark, of the University of Pennsylvania. It was introduced on behalf of the Executive Committee.

The resolution read:

"In view of the fact that the efforts to reform the existing organization of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America have failed and in view of the fact that the tyrannical policy of the present majority of the Presbyterian Church has triumphed as evidenced by the action of the General Assembly sitting as a court in cases Nos. 1 to 5, and in nonjudicial cases Nos. 1 to 8 and 10, it is now declared that the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union shall, upon adjournment of this meeting, cease to exist, and that the members of the Covenant Union are now free to carry on the true spiritual succession of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., in accordance with Section 2 of the Covenant."

Dr. Clark reported the Covenant Union last year had receipts of $16,285 and expenses of $15,934.

Member of Group

The list of those who are members of the new group follows:

Dr. J. Gresham Machen, of Philadelphia, moderator.

Rev. Paul Woolley, of Westminster Seminary, stated clerk.

Dr. H. McAllister Griffiths, editor of the Presbyterian Guardian.

Dr. David Freeman, of Grace Church, Twenty-second and Federal streets, Philadelphia.

Rev. Dean W. Adair, assistant at the Bethel Church, Nineteenth and York streets, Philadelphia.

Rev. Dr. Charles J. Woodbridge, secretary of the Independent Mission Board.

Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, Jr., president of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.

Rev. Allan A. MacRea, of Westminster Seminary.

Rev. Edwin H. Rian, of Westminster Seminary.

Rev. John Burton Thwing, of the Knox Presbyterian Church, unaffiliated, Kensington.

Rev. Arthur F. Perkins, Meirill, Wis.

Rev. George W. Martson, Oxford, Pa.

Rev. Philip du B. Arcularius, Duryea, Pa.

Rev. Robert H. Graham, Middleton, Del.

Rev John P. Clelland, Wilmington, Del.

Rev. Robert Moody Holmes, Philadelphia.

Rev. Cornelius Van Til, Lianerch, of the Westminster faculty.

Rev. Luther Craig Long, New Haven, Conn.

Rev. Edward L. Wade, Windham, N.Y.

Rev. Kelly Grier Tucker, Port Kennedy, Pa.

Rev. Bruce F. Hunt, former missionary to Korea.

Rev. Clifford S. Smith, Bridgeton.

Rev. J. Mulder Koogers, Athens, Wis.

Rev. Robert L. Atwell, Harrisville, Pa.

Rev. Robert J. Vaugh, Chicago, Ill.

Rev. Samuel J. Allen, Carson, N.D.

Rev. Frank Hamilton, Ventnor.

Rev. Everett C. De Veida, New Park, Pa.

Rev. Ned B. Stonehouse, of Westminster Seminary.

Rev. Henry G. Welbon, Newark.

Rev. Leslie W. Sloat, Ridgeway, N.Y.

Rev. Peter De Riuter, Nottingham, Pa.

Rev. Franklin Dyrness, Quarryville, Pa.

Gordon Clark: [Pensacola Theological Institute Opens Here] (The Pensacola News)

1961. [Pensacola Theological Institute Opens Here]. The Pensacola News. Aug. 28

Ministers and seminary students from at least eight states attended the opening service of the fifth annual Pensacola Theology Institute yesterday.

Presiding at the initial service in McIlwain Memorial Presbyterian Church was the Rev. Donald C. Graham, who founded the institute while McIlwain pastor.

Delivering the opening sermon was the Rev. Gordon H. Clark, philosophy department chairman at Butler University, Indianapolis, Ind.

The Rev. Mr. Clark, who also was a member of the institute's first faculty, declared in his sermon that faint belief "gives up and quits when hardship comes."

The philosophy professor briefly recounted Biblical telling of the origination of Christian communism, communion and creed.

"Presbyterian," he stated, "have a congregation communion, whereas the Roman church celebrates Mass privately. We insist it be public.

"Roman theologians never say preaching is necessary. Priests say Mass daily but don't have to preach. The reformed insist on the preaching of the Gospel."

The Rev. Mr. Clark also mentioned a recent national magazine's survey among 100 seminarians as the basis for an article on the "surprising beliefs of our future ministers."

The survey, he said, was not scientifically accurate but still represented a "very large, very powerful, very rich segment of American Protestantism."

More than half the interviewed seminarians denied the virgin birth and only two per cent believe a future life has any importance, the professor of philosophy declared.

The ministerial students also believed in such things as racial integration and slum clearance, the Rev. Mr. Clark added.

Results of the survey were seen by the professor as "almost incredible, even from left wing, radical students."

Yet, he saw the results as a vivid illustration of the separation and division of creeds.

"It's really the modernists who are divided," he also remarked, adding that fellowship cannot exist without a creed of some kind.

The Rev. Mr. Clark preached at 8:30 a.m. to a sanctuary audience which included persons from all over Florida and sections of Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Indiana.

Preaching at 9:40 a.m. yesterday was the Rev. R. Laid Harris, professor of Old Testament at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., and president of the Evangelical Theological Society.

The preacher at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. was the Rev. Jerome DeJong, minister of Immanuel Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dr. Gregg Singer, chairman of the history department at Catawba College, Salisbury, N.C., delivered a public lecture at 6 p.m.

All told there will be 40 separate services and study hours at McIlwaine Memorial Presbyterian this week during the fifth annual Pensacola Theological Institute, also known as the All South Bible Conference.

Advance registrations for the institute included 65 ministers and 50 seminary and college students.

Also on the 1961 Institute faculty are Dr. William C. Robinson, professor of ecclesiastical history and church polity at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga., and Dr. Claude Rhea, dean of the school of church music, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Institute sessions will begin daily at 8:30 a.m., today through Saturday, with chapel services each morning at 10:30 and a public worship service each evening at 7:45.

Lectures dealing with Biblical archaeology and highlights and interpretation of the history of Southern Presbyterianism will be given today through Friday at 6:45 p.m.

Next Saturday will feature a morning and evening picnic, to which McIlwaine members may attend if they register at the church office by Friday.

The Institute will end next Sunday with guest speakers at the various services, 8:30 and 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Gordon Clark: [Partial Victory] (The Durham Sun)

1958. [Partial Victory]. The Durham Sun. Nov. 14

James Bulman, Baptist purist, came, he saw, even spoke, and, he asserts, to some extent conquered. He won two victories. He went home to Spencer, N.C., a pleased man. It may be said, therefore, with truth, as indeed, it already has, that the 1958 North Carolina Baptist State Convention, held here, was one of the most harmonious of all time. Perhaps the Baptists should meet in Durham more often.

However, to Bulman's theses. He won one victory, says Mr. Church Autonomy, when he gained the microphone and a hearing. Last year he was, ultimately, ruled off the floor.

He gained another victory, or, to be more exact, he states, had a share in a victory when the Convention was prompted to defer until the May special session a recommendation to empower the president of the Convention, especially on the third day of conventions, to refer all motions he regarded as involving major conventional action to the Committee on Resolutions. The effect, Dr. Bulman contended before the convention, would be to give the president "very considerable power on the first two days of the Convention's annual session - and almost dictatorial power for the third day."

Dr. Bulman does not take credit for the Convention's action in its almost unheard of demurrer to a recommendation by the General Board (through the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws). He rather feels that if the objection had come from him, alone, the Convention in its state of mind where he is concerned might not have acted; but, after Dr. Bulman spoke, Dr. J.C. Canipe, immediate past president of the Convention, voiced doubts as to the wisdom of the proposal and moved that it be tabled. Tabled it was and, whether the Convention had listened to him or was moved by Dr. Canipe, Dr. Bulman departed pleased that a spoke had been put in the wheel of a move which he felt would give the chair in a Baptist convention autocratic powers more often associated with chairmen of political party conventions.

Dr. Bulman was pleased but not jubilant. He still worries over the Rocky Mount decision which says, to quote a non-Baptist critic, Presbyterian Professor Gordon H. Clark, "that a Baptists church cannot withdraw from the Convention and be independent."

The court, states Professor Clark, said that it did not rule on religious beliefs, but, asserts Professor Clark, the court defined what a church is. "Now, certainly," Professor Clark continues, "the definition of a church is a religious belief on which denominations differ. The Baptists, contrary to the Presbyterians, have always held to independency and have claimed that there is no ecclesiastical authority superior to the local congregation."

That's what bothers Dr. Bulman. He believes the church authority is absolute. He opposes the assertion of the Convention's authority over the church. It continues to bother him and, come the next special session and the next regular session of the Baptist State Convention, he is likely to continue to oppose it.

Gordon Clark: Comprehensive Examination in Philosophy (PCA Archives)

c. 1938. Comprehensive Examination in Philosophy (PCA Archives)

First Afternoon.

The student should aim to answer all the following questions in three hours; one hour extra will be permitted.

The first five questions are to be answered in one hour and a half. Put your name and the name of Dr. Straw on the cover of the book.

1. State chronologically the actors and the ideas in the historical development of logic.

2. Brief in detail the whole subject of the syllogism.

3. Explain Mill’s methods and their use and purpose.

4. Give a problem lecture exemplifying each of the inductive methods of explanation.

5. List the fallacies, with examples from hereabouts in which their avoidance would increase our Christian usefulness.

The next three questions should also take on hour and a half. Put them in a separate book, on which write your name and that of Dr. Buswell.

1. Present the historic of the human mind’s struggle with the problem of evil. Let your presentation show a logical outline of the various schools of ethical theory.

2. Present the Christian view of the problem of evil, including discussion of the Christian attitude toward each important non-Christian system.

A single sheet of paper and twenty-two minutes should be sufficient for the next part. Your name and that of Dr. Clark should appear on the sheet.

1. Give the names, the dates, the titles of the writings of ten philosophers.

The next and last question should take twenty-three minutes. Put your name and that of Dr. Stone on a separate book.

Gordon Clark: Misplaced Sympathy (The Indianapolis Star)

1965. Misplaced Sympathy. The Indianapolis Star. Jun 8.

To the Editor of The Star:

The frequent letters on capital punishment show the important nature of the subject. Some clergymen have said that capital punishment is not Christian. If my memory serves, some of these same clergymen, about two years ago, were defending the sale of pornography in Indianapolis. It would seem that these men and their churches do not know much about Christianity.

Misplaced sympathy for the criminal and callousness toward the victim have made the streets unsafe. Crime soars. Especially violent crime. In view of the results of this type of penology, wouldn't you think that there would be a great return to the ideas of justice and punishment? Capital punishment is the perfect deterrent. No executed murderer kills again. Paroled criminals do.

Gordon H. Clark

Minister,

First Reformed

Presbyterian Church

2201 N. Park Avenue