62 counsel of older men. Mr. Horton said of him, ''We will not have any break with Tucker. The conditions are such that there will not need to be any. I am sure he will not sign our agreement of Doctrine. He could not do so witho~t stultifying himself. None of his congregation would be in accord with our position concerning dispensational teaching, because he has so defin- itely and persistently taught the other thing." Mr. Tucker resigned from the faculty after a conference with Mr. Horton; and, eventually after talk- ing with Mr. Tucker again about the problem, Mr. Horton said that Mr. Tucker no longer held the view that there was a distinction between the Bride and the Body of Christ. Like Mr. Tucker, the second man, Mr. Pratt, responded favorably to a letter from Mr. Horton explaining the position of the School. Mr. Horton reported, "Pratt's letter did not surprise me. He is a manly man and I love him dearly and have every confidence in him. He would not sign our agreement, for he does not believe it, but would not hedge for anything. He probably reads between the lines in our call to Dr. Torrey and looks upon it as our solution of the teaching difficulty and seeks to relieve us of the embarass- ment of asking him for his resignation. He will not blame us for taking the position we do for he knows there would be no other alternative." Thus the problem with both Tucker and Pratt was solved amicably. On the other hand, the problem presented by the third man, Mr. R. A. Hadden, was much more difficult to handle. In addition to the doctrinal pro- blem involved, there was also a rumor that he and others were planning to start another school in competition with Biola. Mr. Horton was caught in a terrible dilemma with Hadden. He said, "The problem concerning Brother Hadden is a delicate and difficult one; to me personally it is a trying one. I have loved him as a son in the Gospel. He is a good teacher." The two men had been associates in St. Paul, Minnesota; and it was through Horton's influence that Hadden came to Biola. He and Horton were the School's first
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