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Ramsey, a Methodist, cites St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans in supporting the traditional Christian view that death entered the world as "the wages of sin" -the punishment for Adam's fall.* Ever since, Ramsey insists, death has been "the enemy." Jesus' death on the cross redeemed man for immortality, but did nothing to prevent death from being a shattering separation of soul and body. Christians, argues Ramsey, thus properly dread death, and in their care for the sick wisely laid the foundations of Western medicine. Nowadays, Ramsey says, "true humanism" still depends on a "dread...
...isolated by the general white population, its members developed their own institutions with the meager resources available. Inevitably, they re-created a pale imitation of the white world complete with their own coming-out parties and cotillions. They distinguished themselves from the black masses by quitting the Baptist and Methodist churches for the Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian or Roman Catholic denominations. Though treated like any other blacks by the white population, they took what comfort they could in their lighter skin. Some Negro colleges even requested photos from applicants to make sure they did not admit too many dark-skinned students...
...personal appeal, which was as folksy as Fulbright's was cerebral. Bumpers assiduously cultivated his image as the candidate of the common man, the same fellow who had gone on camp-outs with the Boy Scouts, served on the school board and, with his mellifluous baritone, led the Methodist Church choir back home in Charleston...
...open a ranch for the same purpose near Tucson. Last year he gave the car he won as best player in the World Series to a Chicano and Yaqui Indian community organization in Tempe. Jackson's generosity is an extension of his religious beliefs. He is a Methodist who rarely attends church at home, but he organizes an informal Sunday chapel while on the road. "Religion to me," he says, "is doing things for my friends and neighbors...
Open Question. Coggan supported Ramsey's Methodist merger plan, and he now sees that effort as part of a "larger unity program" encompassing all Christians. Indeed, his own Call to the North program involves 52 denominational leaders, including Catholics and Salvation Army workers, who meet regularly at York to discuss how best to spread the word of God. Coggan appears receptive to the ordination of women, a practice that has never occurred in Anglicanism except for a handful of cases in Hong Kong. "It is now an open question," Coggan says. "The emotions are less and the intelligent approach...