Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shabby Washington walk-up languishes a lackpenny remnant of the Anti-Saloon League, making itself known only by an occasional press handout concerning increases in drunkenness. Housed nearby are the W. C. T. U. and Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, reviving gradually from the numbing shock of Repeal. But in Manhattan last week a new temperance organization swung into action with a disavowal of oldtime rumfighters' aims and tactics...
Burt J. (for nothing) Denman, 59, nervous, energetic vice president & general manager of United Light & Power Co., has an office in Chicago's Bankers Building, lives in suburban Wilmette. A devout Methodist, he has been vice chairman of the trustees of Garrett Biblical Institute and a pillar of First Church in Evanston. Burt Denman has lately had cause to wonder about Methodism. In Hearst-papers he has seen its preachers attacked as Reds. In Methodist journals like Zion's Herald and the chain of Advocates he has read editorials criticizing businessmen, bankers and especially utilitarians like himself...
...This editorial has brought me to a decision which I have been resisting for two years or more: that is, to withdraw from the Methodist Church. . . . I happen to be an officer of a public utility holding company and consequently I am an 'untouchable' and probably ought not raise my voice in protest, but I have been doing it and I am going to do so increasingly. . . . The Methodist Church . . . has meant much to me. . . . However, I can no longer continue to support in my small way, either financially or spiritually, a course with which I so thoroughly...
...Crowism. Over this Central Conference of blacks, liberal Northern Methodists fought tooth & nail against Southern Methodists. Said Bishop Mouzon: "We intend to give the Negroes more than they ever had before." It was agreed that white conferences with Negro members (i.e. in the North) could keep them. Behind closed doors Negro Bishop Robert E. Jones (Northern Methodist) of New Orleans made a valiant attempt to make an issue of Equal Rights. Negro President Willis J. King of Gammon Theological Seminary, who was reported to have been promised a bishopric, said nothing. Finally, in public, everyone sighed with relief when Bishop...
Since over the next six years it will take a three-fourths majority in each Methodist general conference to get the plan ratified, observers believed that unrealistic, idealistic Northern Liberals could, and probably would, hold up Methodism's mighty merger on the "Jim Crow principle...