Show PRESBYTERY TO JO HEAR fAR APPEAL Of S. S L L PASTOR PASIOn Dr Fee Resists Expulsion by Home Board I EXPLAINS PO POSITION Not Question of Creed He Declares BALTIMORE May 25 As As tb the Presbyterian general was waa come convening ing here today for a weeks week's session announcement was made that the Rev Harry O. O Fee ee of ot Salt Lake Cit City is one of seven persons person who have ha carried appeals t to te th the high court of the denomination Dr Fee Fees Fee's s case ase Is Is' Is said to Involve a quarrel of ot fundamentalists anI and modernists In the Salt Lake Presbytery Presby Presby- tery Dr Fee is a pastor of Salt Lake City He is appealing from his home Presbytery's action In erasing his name from its rolls roUs on th the ground that he had refused to recognize its Jurisdiction and had set up an Independent church One of the claims advanced by Dr Fee in his appeal Is that the Salt Lake Presbytery is Irregular He denies however that he failed to acknowledge Its Jurisdiction and he claims he did not set up an independent inde inde- p pendent church The Tho Presbytery he ho ass asserts was manifestly prejudiced prejudiced diced iced against him and by its action caused Injury not only to himself but to the denomination The In Independent Independent Independent In- In dependent church which he Is accused ac ac- ac accused accused o of setting up is merely a a. community church he says and was established for tor the benefit of ot persons who otherwise attend a. a Presbyterian service because of ot the controversy between him and the Presbytery Presbyter on the fundamentalist t question It Is not a question of ot fundamentalism funda funda- or ok modernism in any sense said Rev Harry O. O Fee Eee former former for for- mer pastor o of Westminster Presbyterian Presby Presby- terian church In Salt Lake when seen Tuesday It wasa was sas a question of ot ofa ofa ota I a growing pastorate and the des desire lre of ot others to assume that pulpit There w was s dissension among the congregation and although the congregation congregation congregation con con- voted to continue me In Inthe Inthe inthe the pastorate three to one I re resigned resigned resigned re- re signed and over seventy of ot the congregation went with me I have never departed from r Jn the teachings a as laid down by the Presbytery and when subsequent subsequent- ly ty y a community church was established l shed largely by those who had withdrawn from the Westminster and by those who did not attend any regular church they called me meto meto meto to the pulpit After fter that my name was erased from toe the Presbyterian rolls on the that I was COnducting conductIng conducting con con- ducting an Independent church I had contemplated dropping the prosecution of ot my appeal for tor reinstatement reinstatement reinstatement rein rein- statement but now I am going goIn ahead with it ft if only for tion CALLED TO SALT LAKE Dr Fee came to Salt Lake from Culver Culyer K Kan n. n in September 1923 He had been called to the pastorate pastorate pastorate pastor pastor- ate of ot the th-e Westminster church and according to his statement the Increase in increase increase in- in crease in membership and attendanCe attendance attendance attend attend- ance began to grow grow at once Members Members Mem Mem- bers bets o of other congregations of other Presbyterian churches began to at attend attend attend at- at tend his church he said Furthermore Furthermore Furthermore Further Further- more he declared he be learned that there was an element In his hl church which had bad l always been troublemakers troublemakers troublemakers trouble trouble- makers and that he was the fourteenth fourteenth fourteenth four four- man they had tried to tl tie a can to I resigned In February 1925 after after arter aft art er It became apparent that the ferment ferment fer fer- er- er ment would not cease he said It then became necessary to call JL a i meeting of the synod of ot which I Iwas Iwas Iwas was moderator that I might ask to tobe tobe tobe be released to seek seele a pulpit else else- wh where re They offered me a months month salary at that time If ir I would get out of or Salt Lake and nd no definite detinUe action was taken at that time Subsequently I went to Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles to look for tor a new opening and Continued on page 8 PRESBYTERY TO HEAR APPEAL OF S S. S L L. PASTOR Continued from page 1 while I was away away those of ot the congregation congregation con con- gresa don wj o had followed me and others organized the Community church at East Broadway and they asked me to return to take charge INDUCED TO RETURN I did so so because I could not feel that it was any different t than tan an hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot other Presbyterian pastors were doing throughout the United States In serving other churches notably the pastorate of ot Dr McGinniss McGinniss niss at the Church of the Open Door In Los Angeles which was founded by Dr IU RA RA A. A Torrey Torey and Dr T T. T C. C Horton It was not an Independent church because it was largely lal-gely attended by my former parishioners par par- many of whom had grown tired of or the dissension at Westminster ster but who would not return to that churchIn church In October 1925 It was decided by the Salt Lake Presbytery that my name should be erased from the roll of ot Presbyterians because he renounces the Jurisdiction of ot the chur church h by becoming Independent Dr Fee who has recently been working for tor a local grocery company company company com com- com com- pany has been confined to his home for or several days by reason of ot InjurIes injuries In- In jurIes received received-in in th the course of ot his duties It is my Intention to prosecute prosecute prose prosecute cute my appeal for re-I re instatement re-instatement statement he paid said This modernism modernism-funda- m me question that has apparently apparently apparently been Interjected is only a smoke screen td td cloud the he real Is Issues Issues issues Is- Is sues he said Dr W W. H. H Ensign present pastor pastor pastor pas pas- tor at Westminster church declined declined declined de de- to make malie any statement nt In re regard regard regard re- re gard to the matter The question questions Is s In the hands of ot our commission commission- ers Drs George E. E Davies and W W. M M. Paden who are v no in attendance attendance attendance attend attend- ance at the Baltimore conference They have all the papers and minutes minI minutes min min- utes with them and the matter will willbe willbe I be taken up In the usual routine |