Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methodist Church . . .used to be full of Pentecostal fire, and [its] public worship was filled with shouts of 'Amen' and 'Hallelujah.' Now the Nazarene and Pentecostal preachers often say that if the Methodists were as Pentecostal as they used to be, they would be glad to be Methodists...
Bishop of the Methodist Church...
Life without Father. Father's name was Devlan, not Fowler. He was an apprentice patternmaker in the machine shops of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Mother sang a rich soprano in the choir of the Methodist Church. Not long after their marriage in 1889, Father decided that he had had all he could stand. Without even waiting to see whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he cleared out for the mountains of Clear Creek County, west of Denver. The boy grew up and never laid eyes on Charlie Devlan until he was 30 and Charlie...
...Words & Ginger Ale. For ten days the six "Christian Commandos"-all hearty Methodist ministers-had been on an evangelizing pub-crawl in Plymouth. Their reception was not always as hearty as at the Tom Elliott. Said one of them: "Sometimes we're accompanied by a continual barrage of strong swearing, but Bird here plays the accordion so loud they can't make themselves heard...
...North Carolina, where tobacco talks, Trinity [Methodist] College changed its name to Duke University for $1,000,000 a year of the late James B. Duke's money. Last week 112-year-old Wake Forest [Baptist] College agreed to walk no miles for some Camel cigaret money...