Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Randolph's contract was the product of a twelve-year campaign. Born in Crescent City, Fla. in 1889, the son of a Methodist preacher, he made his name as founder-editor of the crusading Negro Messenger. For his opposition to U. S. participation in the War, he was officially branded as the "most dangerous Negro in America." Once he received a threat on his life in the form of a bloody human hand, mailed from Louisiana...
...vigorous unofficial body of U. S. Episcopalians, comparable to the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service, is the Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism...
...northern New Jersey sea coast one winter's day in 1868, Rev. William B. Osborne, Methodist minister and onetime Philadelphia marble dealer, left his horse & buggy on the highway, wandered among sand dunes, knelt in prayer. There, during the following summer, he put up a tent, held religious services. Later, with a pious Manhattan brush maker named James A. Bradley, he formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, began selling lots. Ocean Grove prospered...
...Bradley, Ocean Grove acquired in 1876 a big auditorium in which spoke not only religious leaders but Presidents of the U. S.-Grant, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson. Last week, when it reached the height of its most successful season since 1929, Ocean Grove was still a predominantly Methodist theopolis, one of a few communities left in the U. S. which are run on a strictly godly basis...
...rather as its guarantor. It is not the lord, but the servant, of justice." The conference sent a message of sympathy to the German Evangelical Church, whose delegates had been denied passports to attend. This caused the only dissension of the fortnight at Oxford. A German Methodist and a Baptist, representing a mere 200,000 of Germany's 40,000,000 Protestants, jittered that such condolences could only make things worse in Germany...