The 1921 NBC Meeting (Des Moines, Iowa)

I.    The 1921 NBC Meeting (Des Moines, Iowa)

A.    conservative Frank M. Goodchild reported in behalf of the Committee of Nine that had been investigating the schools.

1.    While acknowledging that some teachers had departed from the Christian faith, Goodchild insisted, to the chagrin of Fundamentalists, that docu­mentation would involve too much of the convention’s time, and that, in any case, these schools were "doing a work of which the denomination may well be proud."

2.    The convention then left the matter to the boards of trustees and administrative officers.

B.    As for the matter of liberalism on the mission fields, Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861-1934), president of the NBC, assured the assembly that the denomination was carefully examining all missionaries "as to their belief regarding Christ and the Bible."

C.    The biggest surprise in Des Moines was that the , not willing to rock the boat, Fundamentalists never presented their confession of faith to the convention.