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Record Group 063 Cumulative size: 3.0 cu. ft., with boxes as detailed below. Span dates: 1936 – [ongoing] Access restrictions : None Administrative note : This is a synthetic collection, one gathered by the staff of the PCA Historical Center, one gathered from disparate sources over the... The official archives of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in located at the denominational offices of the OPC, in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Minutes of the Second General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. November 12-14, 1936.

Pb, 32 p.; 24 cm. Accession #011a109002. Minutes of the Third General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. June 1st-4th, 1937. Pb, 34 p.; 24 cm. Accession #011a109003.

Minutes of the Fourth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America meeting in Quarryville, Pa. May 31-June 3, 1938. Pb, 36 p.; 24 cm. Accession #011a109004. The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Minutes of the Fifth General Assembly meeting at Westminster Theological Seminary, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., February 9, 1939 and of the Sixth General Assembly, meeting at Westminster Theological Seminary, Chestnut... Pb, 50 p.; 24 cm.

Accession #982a002001. The Presbyterian Guardian was a monthly conservative Presbyterian magazine. Founded by conservative theologian John Gresham Machen in 1935, it acted as the de facto publication of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, whose members made up most of its readership, despite being officially unaffiliated with... In 1979, it merged with The Presbyterian Journal, which had a significantly larger circulation and similar conservative theological stances.[1] On 7 October 1935, Rev. John Gresham Machen established The Presbyterian Guardian to serve as the voice of conservative Presbyterianism in the United States, the main denomination of which, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, had...

James T. Dennison Jr., compiler of a cumulative index to the magazine, wrote that The Presbyterian Guardian was "conceived in controversy."[2] Machen had been encountering significant theological disagreements with Dr. Samuel G. Craig, editor of Christianity Today (1930–1949) (not to be confused with Christianity Today, the magazine founded in 1956). In response to perceived modernism in the magazine, Machen began publishing The Guardian with a small group of conservative ministers and laymen, hiring Rev. H.

McAllister Griffiths as the first Editor.[2] The magazine saw eight more editors during its tenure, including Machen himself, as well as Revs. Ned Stonehouse, Charles Woodbridge, and Paul Woolley. Machen's name was proudly displayed on the masthead of the magazine from January 1938 until 1979, reading: "J. Gresham Machen, Editor 1936-37." In April 1978, the Board of Trustees asked J.

Cameron Fraser, a native Scot who was then a graduate student at Westminster Seminary to take the position of Managing Editor for 14 months while they contemplated the newspaper's future. On 30 August 1979, the Board voted to merge The Presbyterian Guardian with The Presbyterian Journal. Fraser's term as Managing Editor was extended into autumn and the final issue was published in October 1979. The Presbyterian Journal ceased publication in 1987, and in the same year the magazine World was created by Joel Belz. World, unlike its predecessor, is not explicitly Presbyterian, but of the same conservative Protestant slant.[3] The following made up the last Board of Trustees of The Presbyterian Guardian:

A resource maintained by the Committee for the Historian of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. THE SPIRIT and the decisions of the 1935 General Assembly made it clear that the conservatives of the church would have to organize and unite on a definite program of reform and preparation for... Accordingly, a letter was written by two elders and a layman and addressed to 100 or more conservative leaders in the East, inviting them to be present at a meeting in Philadelphia on June... Approximately 100 attended the meeting at which time the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union was organized, officers elected, an executive committee formed, and a constitution adopted. A campaign was launched to obtain signers of the covenant, to form chapters, and to promote the program of the Covenant Union. The covenant read as follows:

We, the members of this Covenant Union, are resolved, in accordance with God’s Word, and in humble reliance upon His grace, to maintain the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., (1) making... It became obvious that the officers and executive committee of the Covenant Union were determined not only to expose modernism in the boards of the church and to attempt a reform, but also to... This was certain from the second part of the pledge. Immediately, the Covenant Union was attacked not only by the church machine but also by the Rev. Samuel G. Craig, D.D., a former member of the board of trustees of Westminster Theological Seminary and a former member of the Independent Board, because the Covenant Union by its pledge committed men to withdraw from...

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