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...Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
Pastor Helm's letter of resignation to the council said: "I doubt whether any church in the United States has a better background for the appreciation of the practical significance of the religion of Jesus than has Bethel. The first premise of Christianity and its most perfect synonym is brotherhood. To refuse brotherhood to any Christian is the oldest and most heretical blasphemy conceivable. American Christianity is . . . compromised and enmeshed. . . To refuse church membership to anyone not of the same race is to deny the most obvious teaching of Jesus and to give the ethical sanctions of Christianity to race...
...Bethel Church's director of education. Orville Brummer, resigned with Pastor Helm. Said he: "Since it is finally impossible to teach children much more at any given time than their seniors will practice, I despair of any large scale success in teaching children principles of brotherhood in an exclusive church...
...Back 23 185 5.9 Univ. of Minn. O'Keefe, R. J. '30 Back 24 165 5.9 Devitt Prep. Park, J. W. '31 Back 19 175 5.10 Western H. S. Parham, W. M. '31 Tackle 22 190 6. N. Georgia Ag. Perry, G. W. R. '30 Tackle 22 207 6.2 Bethel College Piper, C. N. '30 Back 24 160 5.10 Rose Poly. Inst. Price, J. M. '32 Tackle 19 195 6.2 N. W. Mil. & Nav. Ac. Ray, B. '32 Guard 19 190 6. North. High Schimmelphennig,I.R. '30 End 21 175 5.11 Midland Col. Simenson, E. G. '32 Guard...
...pictures of the interior of this cafe have been obtained and are in the hands of the producers who hope to carry them out in detail. Models and floor plans of the set of the first act have been completed by T. B. Quigley '29 and J. W. Bethel...