Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before they can be admitted to their district conference, all Methodist ministers are asked, "Will you abstain from the use of tobacco and other indulgences which may injure your influence?" Last week, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the Rev. C. O. Green, Negro Methodist preacher in the Louisville, Ky. district, had the usual question put to him by Negro Bishop Robert Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object...
...their perplexity. It required a pledge from each foreign missionary who wished to labor in the ever sunlit Empire vineyard that he would "do nothing contrary to, or in diminution of, the authority of the lawfully constituted Government in the country to which I am appointed." U. S. Methodists signed this oath with no twinge of conscience. In British India they have a large stake: 334 missionaries, 256 churches, 106,237 members, a 1939 budget of $857,479. Last autumn, when Britain entered World War II, it declared that India went with it. To some militantly pacifist missionaries, this declaration...
...ours is being dragooned into war against the will of the vast majority of her citizens. Failure to protest against this coercion would brand us as false prophets." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. Mindful of their church's stake, India's U. S. Methodist bishops straightway got their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to authorize the homecoming of Missionaries < Smith and Keene-who obediently went home...
Arthur Horace James. Freckly, redhaired, 100% reactionary, Pennsylvania's G. O. P. Governor James, 56, is the ideal President to many Americans. A coal-mine breaker's boy, a small-town lawyer, a Methodist and 33rd degree Mason, he respects hard work, thrift, the Bible and Oilman Joe Pew; likes Welsh singing, duck-shooting, boiled dinners; wears high-top shoes with hooked laces; loathes progressivism in any form but the abstract. Yet there have been U. S. Presidents of less force than Mr. James...
...Goodridge. Eight years ago, the only place for sick Negroes in New Orleans was the halls of ancient Charity Hospital, where patients slept two and three in a bed. And there was not a hospital a Negro doctor could practice in. In 1931 the Rosenwald Fund, the Congregational and Methodist Episcopal Churches started a fund to build a hospital for New Orleans' 130,000 Negroes. Cotton Merchant Edgar Bloom Stern, son-in-law of Julius Rosenwald, boomed up a campaign for more money. In a town where only two charity campaigns had reached their quota in 15 years...