Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield, Vt. last fortnight, Rev. Lawrence Larrowe, youngish Methodist minister, pulled on hip boots and, along with many another citizen on the opening day of trout season, went fishing. It was Sunday, but Methodist Larrowe had informed his congregation of his plans, and engaged a supply pastor to preach to them. Presently, eight fish in his creel, Angler Larrowe attended services at another church, and said: "I feel that I have spent a Christian Sunday...
...Birmingham, Ala., James Cannon pugnacious, 73-year-old Prohibitionist, politician, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, announced that he was retiring from his ecclesiastical duties. Explanation: "I dedicate the rest of my powers to the fight against the liquor traffic...
When white-haired Bishop William Newman Ainsworth of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South looked about him in Macon, Ga. last month, he was displeased. Throughout the South, Methodists were engaged in an eleventh-hour battle to defeat a project dear to Bishop Ainsworth's heart-reunion of 8,000,000 U. S. Methodists into one great church. In less than three years, Northern Methodists, Methodist Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing...
...plan of union contemplated a new body (The Methodist Church) composed of five regional Methodist conferences, and a sixth conference embracing 360,000 Negro Methodists regardless of geography. If this smelled of Jim Crow to some Northern liberals, it smelled of too much brotherly love to some Southern diehards. Led by Virginia's Bishop Collins Denny (retired), these antiunionists pounded the racial angle for all it was worth. Stumping the South, 84-year-old Bishop Denny cried: "What are you going to do if eight or ten Negroes come and say, 'Here are our certificates, and we want...
...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...