RUSH TO CHURCH.
POLICE CONTROL CROWD. PASTOR ON WORN-OUT DOGMAS. NFAV YORK, June 1. Police reserves had to be called out to keep in check the thousands of people who desired to attend the Park Avenue Baptist Church to hear the pastor. Harry Emerson Fosdick. a noted modernist orator, deliver his first sermon there. Pastor Fosdick, who had been virtually without a pulpit for several months owing to his modernist views, only accepted the call to Park Avenue when the church acquiesce-d in his idea that immersion is not essential to membership of the Baptist Church. The Park Avenue Church is one of the tvealthiest in America. In his 6ermon Pastor Fosdick attacked the "worn out dogmas" of the Church, and declared that his followera were embarking on the great adventure of Christianity. Both John D. Rockefeller, sen., and •John O. Rockefeller, jun., were present, and they congratulated Pastnr Fosdick on his courage in undertaking the establishment of the "new liberal Christianity." John D. Rockefeller, sen., shook hands with many of the congregation, and gave 10 cent pieces (od) to each of 10 children.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 7
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