5 May 1924 A.D. The Rev. Dr. Daniel S. Gage engages the Auburn Affirmation of 1924
5 May 1924 A.D. The Rev. Dr. Daniel S. Gage engages the Auburn Affirmation of 1924 Archivist. “May 5: Rev. Gage vs. the Auburn Affirmation.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 5 May 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/05/may-5-rev-gage-vs-the-auburn-affirmation/ . Accessed 5 May 2015. May 5: Rev. Gage vs. the Auburn Affirmation By the 1940s, efforts by modernists were well underway to effect a union between the PCUSA and the PCUS. As conservatives in the PCUS (aka Southern Presbyterian Church) began to fight against these efforts, with the formation of The Southern Presbyterian Journal as one major arm of that effort, the Auburn Affirmation came to summarize all that was wrong with the PCUSA and so criticism of the Affirmation was a key way of opposing the merger. Here, from an early issue of The Journal, the Rev. Daniel S. Gage, a professor at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, offered his critique of the Auburn Affirmation which had been issued in its...