Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
...19th Century saw U. S. women emancipated in many fields-but not in religion. The first U. S. women's missionary body, founded in 1819 after a Methodist divine exclaimed, "The help of the pious females must not be spurned," was purely ancillary to a male board. When, in 1869, eight women formed the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, an independent body, churchmen tried to persuade them to let it be administered by men, who knew about such things. But the women stuck to their purpose, which was "engaging and uniting the efforts of the women...
Against the judgment of his superiors. Secretary Emmons had 100,000 copies of The Upper Room's first issue printed by the Southern Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tenn. They were sold in no time. By last week this pocket-size quarterly (10? to 50?, depending upon binding) had broken all records in U. S. religious publishing. No 1938 issue had run under 1,000,000 copies. The winter issue, out last week and advertised as suitable for Christmas greetings, will reach 1,250,000. Altogether, nearly 10,000,000 copies have been sold...
Contents of The Upper Room: daily Biblical quotations, brief homilies, prayers and "A Thought for the Day," each page contributed by a different churchman or layman (usually but not always a Methodist). Sold mostly by mail order, advertised mostly by word of mouth, the popularity of The Upper Room among Protestants of all faiths (it is even more widely circulated in the East and West than in the South) indicates to many a hopeful evangelical churchman the possibility of a return of the "family altar." Dr. Emmons estimates that 1,000,000 people practice its devotions daily...
Sure to be selected on every All-America is Texas Christian's little quarterback, Davey O'Brien, outstanding player of the year, who has been the vanguard of his team's victorious procession over their ten opponents this season. Against Southern Methodist last week little Davey led a strategic attack that not only gave Coach Dutch Meyer's Horned Frogs a 20-to-7 victory but the championship of the Southwest Conference as well. Its work done, Texas Christian sat back, basked in its record of 254 points and 3,593 yards gained this season, wondered...