Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had inquiries from all over the U.S. relative to this man. Records indicate that Robert Henry Best is a son of the late Rev. A. H. Best, who preached for one year (1896) at the Methodist Church at Zoar, a small country community in Sumter County about ten miles from this city. His father was transferred after that one year from the "Lower" to the "Upper Conference" of the South Carolina Methodist Church. It is possible that he was born in Sumter or Sumter County in 1896, which would make his age at the present approximately 46 years...
...Sacks of Wheat. The case had a humble beginning. Waller sharecropped a wheat and tobacco farm in Pittsylvania County in southern Virginia. His landlord was Oscar Davis, a white tenant farmer who, no matter how hard he worked and sang hymns in the Methodist church, never got out of debt. Black and white, Waller and Davis were two poor, desperate men at the bottom of the South's economic heap. When the Government curtailed Davis' tobacco allotment, Davis cut Waller's acreage and denied the poverty-stricken Negro his due: one-quarter share of the threshed wheat...
Nothing quite like it has ever happened in the history of U.S. religious sects. Last week one denomination gave another denomination an outright gift worth $400,000. Givers were the Texas Methodists, recipients the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). The gift was the plant and all the assets of the Methodist University of San Antonio, which will be taken over by Presbyterian Trinity University (now at Waxahachie, Texas) next September. Possible worldly motive behind Methodism's good deed: colleges are costly to run and Methodists have ten others to support in Texas...
...Average membership of all Methodist churches is 185, with 73% located in small towns or rural areas. Average Methodist minister's salary is $1,496 ($28.77 a week...
These statistics, released last week by the Methodist Division of Home Missions, make it clear once more that, although the old church rule requiring him to move every year is now repealed, a Methodist minister does indeed need "one foot in heaven" to put up with his lot on earth...