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title: 'Rian: The Truth Cannot Be Kept Down Forever'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-12-29
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-rian-the-truth-cannot-be-kept-down-forever
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# Rian: The Truth Cannot Be Kept Down Forever

“\[T\]he princes of the Church may fool some of the people and even a majority of the Presbyterians by crying that the issue was ‘administrative,’ but they cannot stampede outsiders and they cannot keep down the truth forever.” — Edwin H. Rian, *The Presbyterian Conflict* (1940), p. 216