Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia, the Senator's arch political...
...Georgia, Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, deaf to the bellowings of his diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
This Roanoke gathering was the political child of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, arch-enemy of the Smith-Raskob leadership. In a public letter a few weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...
...Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald; Dr. William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank A. Home of Merchants' Refrigerating Co., Methodist Board of Missions, often referred to as the "greatest lay Methodist...
...From Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, the delegates received little hope of a Methodist union. Said the Bishop: "I don't know as we of the South could join a church union which did not teach a judgment to come and punishment for sin. I am not narrow and bigoted, and if the other fellow can get along without these beliefs it is all right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have...