Show j Center of Church Row to Continue Writing Novels Presbyterian Board Accepts Resignation of Good Earth Author With I Regrets' Regrets I U Dr By Untied run Frets NEW YORK May Ma 2 2 Mrs Mrs Pearl S. S 3 Buck whose resignation as a Presbyterian Pres- Pres mission missionary ry was accepted ed by bythe bythe the he church board of ot foreign missions with wilh regret wilt will return to the Orient Orient Ori Ori- ent but never again as a missionary The author of The Good Earth whose treatment of sex ex cx subjects and whose espousal of a faith ith brought her into bitter conflict with Presbyterian terian fundamentalists expects to o go on with my novels she said after her resl resignation nation was made public pub pub- lie ic lic The Thc Rev Re Dr J. J Gresham Machen chairman of the faculty of the Westminster West West- minster Theological seminary at Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia who made the original charges of heresy against Mrs Buck was represented today as lS exceedingly ex ex- r resentful that the board accepted accepted ac- ac her resignation with regret rather ather than dismissing her 3 as he de demanded de- de Mrs Henry V. V K Gillmore Gilimore a memer mem- mem I bet ber er of oC the board who for more than thanen ten en years jears represented the other extreme ex- ex reme to Dr Machen announced her intention to follow Mrs Bu Buck k by re resigning reigning resigning re- re signing from the board m jn order to express my fullest sympathy with hero her Debate over o the novelists novelist's attitude altitude at t a closed meeting of ot the board held yesterday afternoon was said to have been een storm stormy At its conclusion the following announcement was was' made After various friendly conversa- conversa lions lons and without appearing before the he board Mrs J. J Lossing Buck has requested that she be permitted to retire from active connection with the tie Presbyterian board of foreign missions and at ata a a meeting toda today the board oard accepted her resignation with regret egret It was regarded as significant b by Mrs Irs Bucks Buck's friends that her action places laces her in the company of th those e missionaries she described in an article artile arti- arti do cle le in the Christian Century when she tie said Almost every missionary who has achieved distinction in appreciation and und understanding of ot a culture which he ic was sent to and Christianize who has as expressed that appreciation and understanding has been forc forced d to leave cave missionary ranks The fundamentalist attack on Mrs Buck entered centered entered around not only her denuncIation enunciation of unfeeling ignorant missionaries she charged were sent to China by the board but by what one official termed the overemphasis of sex ex in her nove novels The Good Earth which brought Mrs Buck ional attention was a Pulitzer prize winning vinning novel Mrs Buck will return to China inJune InJune in June une to join her husband the Rev Re J. J Lossing Bossing Buck head of ot the tural ural department of ot Presbyterian Tanking university I |