Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floyd Stevens and Jim Galloway of the Pastoral Relations Committee of Marysville's Methodist Church came to break the news: the church's trustees had voted to ask the Methodist Conference for a new pastor. Said Pastor Safran of that interview: "I asked why, and Stevens answered: 'It was because of your address at the high school. It is out of place. . . .' I said, 'Is there anything else?' And Jim answered: 'Well, you haven't made enough calls. But do you remember the first Sunday School board meeting when I told...
...looks like a Roman Catholic priest after Hollywood's heart-from the man-to-man no-nonsense of his manner to the gentle, Celtic cadence of his speech. But South-Ireland-born Chaplain A. Hamilton Nesbitt of New York City's Police Department is a solid Methodist. Like many another Protestant churchman, Chaplain Nesbitt had long looked with Christian envy upon the way the Catholics get their people together. Why shouldn't Protestants use the same methods...
...from potential chapters in other U.S. cities. This summer 61-year-old Chaplain Nesbitt plans to start things moving in Washington, D.C., Wilmington and Cape Cod while on "vacation" from his trim, tree-shaded St. Luke's Church in The Bronx. Alive to the perils of bigotry, Irish-Methodist Nesbitt unfailingly invites Catholics to St. George organization meetings, works in close collaboration with the Catholic police chaplain. Nevertheless, he earnestly says: "The way to win a man or a woman-or a church-is to fight." Last week, looking more like a Catholic priest than ever behind his gold...
...older brother) earns more than a million silver dollars every year, making it the nation's biggest. The Smith boys are always ready to do something nice for people. They donated Reno's Catholic nursery, gave $5,000 to pay off the mortgage of the local Methodist church, spent more thousands for the Mormons, the Church of the Nazarene, the Negro Methodists. Last week the Smith Brothers, who never got through high school, were ready to do something nice for education...
High Hopes. Last month Harry Truman officially continued Personal Representative Taylor's mission. Seven major denominations in annual conventions or assemblies promptly put themselves on record for Taylor's recall. Finally, last week, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, led a ten-man interdenominational delegation to the White House and presented the President with a document embodying the resolutions, as well as 30-odd more from other conferences and denominational groups...