Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirds of the world's 12,000,000 Methodists live in the U. S. Last year their three main U. S. branches-Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Protestant Church-merged to form the nation's biggest Protestant church. Fortnight ago united Methodism met at Atlantic City for its first general conference. The 776 delegates and their thousands of camp followers met morning, noon & night, spent small time even on mild amusements, though godly Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan, a delegate for the last 32 years, roller-chaired down the boardwalk with delegates from India...
...Urged passage of laws to require premarital medical tests, recommended that Methodist parents instruct their children before adolescence "on the origin of life and the nature of their personalities as it relates...
...Decreed that henceforth Methodist ministers must be college graduates, have theological training...
...divorce, TIME was in accord with standard histories (The Cambridge History, The New Larned History, etc.). Because it regards itself as a part of the universal Catholic Church (the final break taking place after Henry's time), the Anglican Church claims succession from the Apostles. Actually the Methodist Church, founded by John Wesley, might make a similar claim, since it in turn split from the Anglican Church...
Dillard was created by a merger of two impoverished old New Orleans schools, Congregationalist Straight College and Methodist Episcopal New Orleans University. The two church boards, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Rockefeller General Education Board and leading New Orleans citizens, including Rosenwald Son-in-Law Edgar B. Stern, pledged $2,000,000 to build the new university, opened it in 1935. It was named for an old Virginia blue blood, Dr. James Hardy Dillard, who for 24 years had devoted himself to improving the South's Negro country schools...