Show iNti FOSDICK MUST REMAIN CHURCH SAYS Dr Vandyke Raps Bryan In Talk On Evolution NEW YORK TORK June 4 By By The Tho Associated Press Henry Henry N Tifft clerk of the sessions of the First Presbyterian ch church announced I today loday that the Re Rev Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick had tendered his as pator because of the recent criticism of oC his pulpit utterances by the Presbyterian terlan as- as assembly assembly as assembly at but th t the church had flatly refused to accept It H taking Its stand behind I Dr Fosdick In Dr Fosdick's letter of or n dated May Mav 24 h ho he wrote rote that while he had no reison resson or d to resign he ho felt It was ns best In the interest of church harmony to 10 proffer his resignation and le leIt 0 It to the ch church to decide whether hether It wished to dispense with Ith his servIces services ices lees AMr Mr said he had bad been dl- dl di directed to write Dr J Fosdick telling him that lint the church tood tood with I him on the subjects for or which ho wItS was criticised ed and would not cone con sider alder sider his Jh sl e N I t NL NL YORK June AttaCK 4 AttaCKIng Ing I tag Ing certain Orthodoxies affirmed by the general assembly of time the ch chirch Dr I nd ke former United Unit S States tes tesI minister to I The lime he Netherlands In a I sermon at the Iho Park Avenue Pros Pros- Presbyterian i church Monday I tl divine truth of evolution anI I referred to William Jm J Bryan as among thos those who talked much and read little Under the verbal erbal of a man from late from Nel Nebraska a 0 sincere de- de de devoted voted but frequently mistaken man an an attempt Is made to do things which would seem to me meto meto meto I to cripple the church said Mr I IVand Vand ke lee One of or these thee s Is Isto isto Isto to declare war between church and by denouncing the tha h hypothesis of mans man's physIcal physical cal nature as S scriptural anti-scriptural an ani 1 atheistic You might as well de- de deI denounce de denounce the tho Copernican of astronomy nomy on the same grounds liArs PS I AD Di Vandyke deplored the at- at attempt at attempt tempt by the general assembly to 10 Impose on the tho Presbyterian church a II pledge of total abstinence from wine In closing Mr Vandyke referred once more to the tho gentleman front from rolda the church authorities and possible consequence of isis But limit It If they wish to turn turu m me out I there shall be no quarrel With you In regard to your r ht to take tako s eb action Heresy trials I bats they are the meanest meJneRt form of Tell me to gO fro with author author- authorIty authorIty authority ity and I will go with a quIetness that will make the folded tents teats of oC the Arabs seem noisy nolI |