Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago last week, the biggest merger in Protestant history created the biggest Protestant body in the U.S.-the Methodist Church. To celebrate the decennial, the Methodists published some statistics to warm every Wesleyan heart...
...outside local churches zoomed from $11 million in 1940 to $28 million last year. The value of church property rose from $704,000,000 to $1,077,000,000. Most dramatic figure of all: though local mergers have reduced the number of churches, there are now 5,000 more Methodist Sunday schools (37,908) with an average attendance that has grown 18% in the last four years...
John Franklin Goucher had the meager salary of a Methodist minister to live on, but the girl he had decided to marry happened to be rich. "Young man," her father demanded, "do you want to marry my daughter for her money?" "No, sir," replied Goucher, "but I certainly could find...
...good dose of his oratory, their duty became plain. He arranged their passports and sent them packing, full of zeal. For Dennis, no chance for conquest was to be neglected. One of his followers, pretty, brown-haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church's old Epworth League. One ex-Red remembers a Sunday night when Ann got an Epworth League discussion group around to agreeing that if Christ were alive today he would be a strike leader and a revolutionist...
Said solemn Charles Ewaskio, 31, assistant professor of physics and a Catholic for slightly more than two years: "There's no doubt that [Methodist Bishop] G. Bromley Oxnam is right about us ... It has been made very clear that unbaptized babies don't go to heaven...