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Kneeling in a little chapel in Aldersgate Street, London, a moody Anglican clergyman felt his heart "strangely warmed" by a feeling that through Jesus Christ he had been saved. The warming of John Wesley, two centuries ago, gave Methodism to the Church of England, which was not impressed. Wesley remained an Anglican, but his movement grew outside the Church, flowered in America, where the first Methodist bishop was consecrated in 1784, and where Methodist circuit riders followed the frontiers as they spread westward...
Most Southern churchmen are theological, economic and political hard-shells. Eleven years ago one of the oldest and richest churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., Third Presbyterian, called a Scottish-born-and-burred clergyman who was anything but shellbacked-Rev. Thomas B. Cowan. In 1934 Pastor Cowan held a meeting of a new, radical organization, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, later became its president. Thereupon 22 Chattanoogans seceded from Third Church. More left when Mr. Cowan helped organize labor unions, worked among sharecroppers, invited a Negro to a church dinner. Of late the chief listeners to Pastor Cowan's Sunday sermons...
...really lovable portrayal. His presentation of Ginger Ted is a worthy addition to comedy. Mrs. Laughton in the contrasting but amenable role of a young Florence Nightingale variety of missionary, is convincing but on the verge of presenting a caricature rather than a real person. Her stage brother, missionary-clergyman-doctor, is on the point of the ridiculous, but he is not seen often. One of the picture's outstanding features is magnificent scenic photography of the Pacific archipelago where most of the story takes place...
Year ago in Memphis, Tenn., a haggard, burning-eyed, 100-lb. clergyman, Dean Israel Harding Noe (pronounced No-ee) of St. Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal), fasted himself into the news (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken, gravely ill, to a hospital...
...room of an ocean liner, some of them not sure why they have embarked, others puzzled about their destination until one of them grasps the fact that they are all dead. Still vivid, if over-typical, are the people themselves: the drunkard (Bramwell Fletcher), the charwoman (Laurette Taylor), the clergyman, the snob, the businessman, the young couple who have killed themselves for love. Still troubling are these people's confusions, hopes and fears as the voyage nears its end and the image of "the Examiner" haunts their minds...