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...fanfare of trumpets, 99 bishops -90 representing the Methodist Church and nine from the Evangelical United Brethren-paraded into Dallas' Memorial Auditorium, followed by acolytes and delegates from the 52 countries where the two denominations have worked. Then Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of New York City, representing the Methodist Church, and E.U.B. Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of Indianapolis clasped hands across a table and pronounced a declaration of unity. Massed in the hall, 10,000 members of the two denominations followed suit, joining hands and reciting in unison: "Lord of the church, we are united in thee...
Language Barrier. The merger brings together two groups that have held certain common beliefs ever since their beginnings in the 18th century. The Methodist movement was founded in England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before...
Erasing the Vestiges. The United Methodist Church inherits by necessity the problems of the Methodist Church, most significantly its racially segregated organization.* White-run Methodist churches in the South have been al lowed by their denomination to bar Negroes from membership; as a result, Southern communities often have separate white and Negro Methodist congregations. The new denomination eliminates the Central Jurisdiction, a euphemism for a segregated administrative arm that has overseen most Negro Methodist churches. But it still retains ten all-Negro Methodist conferences in the South as separately administered units. The planners of the new church body have...
Although Methodism has been slow to involve itself in contemporary social issues, m recent years politically-minded activists have attained increasing influence in both the Methodist Church and the E.U.B. Delegates to the uniting conference approved a resolution to raise $20,000,000 during the next year for aid to the poor...
...Just as the Southern Baptist Convention, with more than 11 million members, is the U.S.'s largest Protestant denomination, most Negro Christians are also Baptists. Negro Baptist churches have a combined membership of more than 8,000,000. The next largest Negro churches are: African Methodist Episcopal, 1,166,301 members; African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 1,100,000; Christian Methodist Episcopal...