Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years and 150 days after Pearl Harbor, the Methodist Church endorsed the war. The Church told its 8,000,000 members that their prayers for the 1,000,000 Methodist servicemen and women, the 1,300 Methodist chaplains, were now authorized. Methodists may now also pray for victory. But it took a whole day's tense debate on the floor of the Church's quadrennial General Conference,* which met (for ten days) in Kansas City's municipal auditorium, to make Methodism reverse its antiwar stand...
...decision made this General Conference one of the most momentous in Methodist history. Long has the Methodist Church been a stronghold of pacifism...
...Methodist leaders like Evanston's Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, Detroit's Dr. Henry Hitt Crane, Pasadena's Dr. Albert Edward Day, New York City's Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman are uncompromising pacifists. These pacifists led the last General Conference (at Atlantic City) to declare: "The Methodist Church, although making no attempt to bind the consciences of its individual members, will not officially endorse, support or participate in war. . . . Agencies of the Church shall not be used in preparation for war. . . . Buildings of the Church, dedicated to the worship of God, shall be used only for that...
...Whip. Cried Cincinnati's energetic Preacher R. Gammon Morris: "I am for war. I am an American, I am a Methodist, and I am a Negro. . . . Jesus Christ, when things got into confusion, didn't stand up in the temple and preach to men that after a while things would be all right. ... He went and got Him a whip. I declare to you that it is time for us to get a whip and stay by that whip until totalitarianism has been driven from the face of the earth...
...Said Methodist Publishing House's Dr. Nolan B. Harmon Jr.: "America is fighting for her life, but we, the greatest Protestant denomination in this nation, cannot officially join in the struggle. I do not forget that there was another occasion when a Roman Government official washed his hands of a dark and dirty business. . . . We have spent more time calling attention to the plight of 600 Methodist conscientious objectors than we have to twice that many crosses over dead Methodist boys in the far-flung corners of this earth...