The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
DR.. BORDEAUX
TO PREACH TODAY
General Secretary OF ACCC
To Be Guest Pastor
Here

DR.. william n. 6oIueduA' Se'
eral secretary Of the American
Council of Christian churches will
be guest speaker at the IL am.
and 8 pm. services of the Will
mingtcn Gospel tabernacle today.
DR.. Bordeaux who is a native
Of Wilmington arrived from New
York recently to visit his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover C. Bordeaux
at their summer home, Carolina
Beach. He is accompanied by his
two daughters, Gloria and Joyce
Marie.
DR.. Bordeaux is known to resi-
dents in this area, his parents hav-
ing resided here for about half a
century. He was graduated at the
Hemingway school in 1919, from
the New Hanover High school in
1928, and entered Davidson col
leee. With honors he received his
ALB. degree there in 1927.
In 1899, DR.. Bordeaux re-
ceived his first year of. seminary
training at Princeton Theological
Seminary, departing Princeton
then because Of its drift towards
modernism, he said.
DR.. J. Gresham Machen and DR..
Robert Dick Wilson, both world
renowned scholars, were Prince
ton theolog1ans who helped estab-
lish Westminster Seminary IN
Philadelphia. Harllee Bordeaux
was one Ct the young men VINO,
entered w t minister at once.
graduating with the Th.B. degree
in 1881.
After graduation from Westmln-
lister, DR.. Bordeaux was ordained
in his home church, the First
Presbyterian, Bird and Orange
Streets, DR.. Machen, at his re-
quest. coming South to preach the
ordination sermon.
After a pastorate in Connecticut,
and some experience in the evan
gelestic field. he accepted the call
of a mid-western university to be
the head of the Bible department.,
and the university minister.
In 1897. he received the Th.D.
degree at the Los Angeles Bap-
fist Theological Seminary, to
which he was called as Dean sew
en- years later.
1t was from his duties as Dean
in that school that he was re-
peatedly called by the American
Council of Christian churches. In
1916, he assumed the duties OF
General secretary of the above or
%ganization, in charge of the ma
tional headquarters in New York
City, residing with his wife and
three children in Bogota, N. j.
1.-THE American council, despite
its youth Gt was not organized
until 1941) is coming rapidly to
mean to Bible-believing Christians
in North America what the FEEDER
al council Of the churches of Christ
In America means to liberals or
modernists in their perversion or
fortnight denial of the Bible. The
American council has been grant
ed governmental recognition in
numerous ways; Chaplaincy rights
have been extended, at this mo-
ment an American council repre-
sentative is n Of the fourteen
c]ergymen now touruing by special
plane the war-torn areas of Eu-
rope as guests Of the U. S. A.
government" DR.. Bordeaux said.
"By multiplied thousands, the
American council is regarded as
the strongest anti : Communist
voice in Protestant America today
in contrast with Russian ap-
peasement openly advocated by
many Federal council leaders,"
DR.. Bordeaux said.
At 8 pm. today DR.. Bordeaux
will present facts relating to the
necessity and achievement of the
American Council of Christian
churches. Such messages he and
other council leaders are constant
ly offering to enthusiastic audi
ences in all the major cities of
this country, he said. Last Sun
DAY, DR.. Bordeaux was the guest
preacher at the home coming
service of the Community church
Ct Carolina Beach.