Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin when Tracy, drunk, sick, increasingly demoralized, tries to buy a black husband for her. The town of Maxwell in the windless heat of Georgia midsummer, with a revival meeting in full swing, with nice girls (white) also discovering they are pregnant, sins being sweatingly confessed while the old Methodist hymns roll out over the darkened houses, has the quality that explorers attribute to native villages in Africa. People are fever-stricken, enervated and blinded by headaches. And after the first unexpected actions that start them on the way to tragedy, Miss Smith's characters move less like Struggling...
...vehement, forceful, articulate spokesman for a new Southern reformist movement that still needs to be explicitly defined. Of medium height, youthfully middleaged, with her prematurely grey hair piled high above her 'high forehead, she reached literary work and social reform way of music teaching in a Methodist missionary school in China, secretaryship to a city manager in Georgia, running the swanky girls' summer camp her father founded in Clayton, Ga., and editing a literary magazine...
...month ago China's Bishop Chen Wenyuan, steaming across the Pacific on a U.S. hospital transport, was thrilled when the ship sighted two Japanese submarines. This week in Manhattan U.S. Protestant leaders welcomed the 45-year-old Methodist Bishop ("China's No. 1 Protestant") as the unofficial ambassador of another famed Chinese Methodist, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
...Chinese magistrate in Foochow, Chen Wenyuan was born a Buddhist. At Foochow's Anglo-Chinese College he learned about Christianity from Methodist Bishop John Gowdy,* adopted the faith, promptly converted his mother (his father was dead), several cousins. In 1917 he came to Syracuse University (he helped pay his way by teaching Chinese) later took a Ph.D. at Duke, followed by summer courses at Cambridge University, the University of Berlin. After a year of European lecturing, Dr. Chen, who had been ordained to the Methodist ministry, returned to China to be Dean of Fukien Christian College. Five years later...
Three years ago Dr. Chen became Bishop of the Methodist Church's Chungking Area. (Only other Chinese Methodist Bishop: Dr. Z. T. Kaung of Pekin.) Chungking's population ebbs & flows with so many refugees that even the Bishop does not know how many Methodists are there. In all China there are not more than five million Christians. But Bishop Chen is more than a Methodist leader. He is a great interfaith leader, and Chinese of all beliefs know of him and his work for Chinese unity. He is a prime force in the Fellowship of Religious Believers...