Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Lutheran Church, whose hospital in Tsingtao, Shantung has been carrying a heavy load during the war, appealed for relief funds in January, but has not increased its annual budget of some $25,000. Since last autumn the Methodist board of foreign missions has collected $61,000 above its budget, about one third of what it needs. Lately missionaries of the University of Nanking (in which Methodists and four other denominations cooperate) made a remarkable 1,000-mile trek to West China Union University in Chengtu, a three-week trip by boat past Hankow and through the Yangtze gorges. This...
Cried she: "I've got a lot of new axes -about a dozen of them-and I'm not going to quit until every machine is out of the city." In Alton's Methodist Church, lay men and churchmen held a mass meeting to raise funds for her defense. Oddly, none mentioned the real reason...
...endowment, was urged to lead the South out of. its educational wilderness. The University owes its eminence to Oliver Carmichael's predecessor, old James Hampton Kirkland (TIME, June 21, et ante), who in his 44 years as chancellor wrested control of the institution from the Methodist Church, raised its scholastic standards, boosted its endowment from slightly more than $1,000,000 to $22,500,000. Nearly all the endowment and plant came from three igth-Century industrial Titans-$4,000,000 was Vanderbilt money, $18,500,000 Rockefeller money, $2,790,000 Carnegie money...
...time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church. The Church of the New Jerusalem grew up after his death. Today it has some 20,000 members throughout the world, of whom 8,000 belong to two U. S. branches...
Forward. Made public last week in England was a plan, drafted by the two Anglican archbishops, eleven bishops and representatives of Nonconformist churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Quaker), by which reunion is to be attempted between the Church of England and the Free Churches, whose total membership is 7,000,000. The plan contemplates a church governed by a general assembly, bishops, diocesan synods and congregational councils, new bishops to be chosen from the Free Churches on the basis of their membership. Within this church there would be great freedom of doctrine and worship, but Anglicans would be asked...