"Faith Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware was founded in June 1936, on the issue of the integrity of the Word of God, especially as related to the foreign missions enterprise. Harold Samuel Laird, who had been pastor of one of the large Presbyterian Churches in Wilmington, had been defrocked for insubordination because he refused to accept the mandate of the General Assembly that he must resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. In those days it was claimed that it was as great a sin to fail to support the boards and agencies of the church as to absent one's self from the Lord's Table. The Laird trial and defrocking was in the same series of ecclesiastical trials in which Dr. J. Gresham Machen, Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, Jr. and others were put out of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A."
[excerpted from an account of the history of Faith Presbyterian Church]
Pictured at the right is the Rev. Dr. Harold Samuel Laird, 4
organizing pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church. Dr. Laird served as pastor of Faith Presbyterian from 1936 until 1957.

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