The making of a minister;: The autobiography of Clarence E. Macartney Review

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The making of a minister;: The autobiography of Clarence E. Macartney ReviewClarence Macartney (1879-1957) was one of the most talented and interesting pastors of his generation. He pastored some of the largest Presbyterian churches in America, including First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh and Arch Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
He was an intense, learned man. In addition to his theological mastery (he was once offered a professorship at Princeton Seminary), he was a fine Civil War scholar.
Macartney was a bold conservative. He served on Machen's board for Westminster Seminary, and offered to be Machen's defender in his trail, but he refused to leave the mainline denomination. If he had, he would have been the most promient churchmen to do so, and the OPC and American Presbyterianism would have been radically altered.
Macartney was a conservative, but also highly irenic. At one point, for example, he learned that some Roman Catholic priests were subscribing to his sermons, and he comments that while he disagrees with idolatrous elements of the mass, he believed Roman Catholics are true Christians and much closer to orthodox Proestants than Modernist (Liberal) Protestants are (p. 182).
This autobiography is carefully crafted and always interesting. It moves along at a steady but unhurried pace. It is remarkable that such an eventful life could be contained in 220 pages. The printing of my 1961 Channel Press (NY) first edition is no frills. A sturdy hardcover whose pages have just the slightest bit of yellow, a decent period dustjacket that has held up well, but no index and no photos (other than the dustjacket).
Frank E. Gaebelein, headmaster of the Stony Brook School, wrote the introduction, and Rev. J. Clyde Henry edited the work for posthumous publication.
BTW -- for more materials on Macartney, Geneva College in PA has a good collection, as does Westminster Theological Seminary (PA). I once bought a large cache of his sermons, printed individually as booklets, that I later donated to the PCA Historical Center at Covenant Seminary's campus in St. Louis. See too Bradley Longfield's chapter on Macartney in Presbyterian Controversy.The making of a minister;: The autobiography of Clarence E. Macartney Overview

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