Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Declared the Council's retiring president, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam...
George A. Maran '38 and Paul D. Tibbetts '45 will sing sole parts than the combined choirs of Christ Church. Cambridge and St. John's Methodist Church perform the Christmas section of Handel's "Messlah" in St. John's Sunday at 4:30 o'clock...
...China's current best-sellers is a brand-new edition of the Psalms, translated by a Roman Catholic, edited by a Methodist. The translator: U.S.-educated Dr. John C. H. Wu, J.D. The editor: Chiang Kaishek, President of the National Government and Commander in Chief...
...converted to Christianity while studying at Shanghai's Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...
...translating the Psalms the Catholic-Methodist team worked well. Wu's Chinese rendering was based primarily on various Catholic translations in French and English; the unilingual Generalissimo checked against his familiar Protestant versions, indicating his likes & dislikes. Then Wu worked over the passages the Generalissimo did not like, sometimes made three or four tries before it was right. When Editor Chiang nodded and said, "Hao hao (Good good)," Translator Wu knew the team was in agreement...