Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishops who are aggressively outspoken friends of labor can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Outstanding are Chicago's Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bish op Bernard James Sheil, San Francisco's retired Episcopal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, Boston's Methodist Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam...
...Vincennes, Ind., Mrs. Lyndon Eberly and her daughter, Helen, heard on the radio that Sergeant Richard Eberly, 21, had been one of the first to be landed by air in France. The Eberlys prayed. At 3:30 a.m. in Marietta, Ga., the bell of the Methodist Church began to peal; by 4, every church was lighted, and in every church the people prayed...
...only boy to get 100% on the Bible also got 100% on the songs; he is 17 -year-old John S. Baker, who proposes to follow his grandfather into the Methodist ministry...
...course, I was trying to express to a friend (who is not a Methodist) the need for more practical idealism and more inspired common sense in managing our foreign policy. I was thinking of the kind of church people whose religion moves them to do things, not just to say them, and who, therefore, feel their ideals must be workable, and that common sense can have a spiritual quality. Many people, Catholics and Jews and others, are that...
...pacifist grip on the Church had been broken. But the score of Army and Navy chaplains present were not so happy. Said one: "The Church has lowered her flag." Said another: "When this bloody business is over, there is going to be a wave of revulsion against war, and Methodist men are not going to be proud that their Church had any part...