Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Currently prelates and publicists of the Roman Catholic Church are engaged in telling the faithful how gravely they are endangered by Communism. An Episcopal group led by Bishop Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio is attempting to deepen the spiritual life of the Church through a Forward Movement. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is trying to do like wise and to liquidate a $385,000 mission ary debt through a Bishop's Crusade, to which the most notable response to date has come from China's Chiang Kai-shek & wife who promise $1,000 in gold. Last week...
Northern Methodism's name for its drive is the Million Unit Fellowship Movement. A "unit" is $1 a month subscribed to the Church. Methodists may make themselves responsible for the monthly $1 or club together on a unit. The Church expects its 5,000,000 members thus to contribute $1,000,000 a month for the next year. Since its launching last November the Movement has been directed by retired Bishop Frederick Thomas Keeney of Chicago. Methodist income for world service has dipped from $8,000,000 in 1925 to $3,000,000 in 1935 but busy Bishop Keeney...
...Tennessee's 50 colleges is the most informally-named in the U. S. and, according to its founder, the only one in the world where Greek and Hebrew are required subjects for students majoring in Religion - Bob Jones College in Cleveland. Alabama-born Bob Jones, a tall, husky Methodist who held his first service at 13 and was licensed to preach at 15, founded his institution a decade ago in northern Florida, planning it as a college for preserving the Bible and "the oldtime decencies" and still appealing to young people. He began with 132 students, confounded pedagogs...
...troops under General Ku are the famed "Chiang's Own," smartly drilled by Germans, far better equipped than any other Chinese force, strictly brought up in the Christian virtues for years by the Methodist Generalissimo. That these soldiers might be morally too good was a fear to which their General Ku gave discreet expression last week. "If you observe the people of Sian and its province of Shensi smoking opium, ignore it for the present," he ordered, just before his troops finally entered Sian this week, apparently unresisted. "Hold your peace. We wish to forget that this Sian. trouble...
...were aroused over a young couple who had been illegally married since Jan. 15-Stanley Backus, 18, and Leona Roshia Backus, 12. Armed with a marriage license giving Leona's age as 18, and with their parents' approval, the couple had been married in Carthage by a Methodist named Rev. William K. Bradshaw who, like every one else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according to the County Prosecutor, Groom Backus confessed to having...