Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great mountains of Kweichow where much of the world's mercury is mined and men speak a language called "Miao," feline Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week was stalking Communists, beating them from their lairs, butchering them by hundreds and then thousands-notwithstanding that he is a Methodist of bland and gentle mien...
...boots, in their milk, coffee, soup and stew. Dust poured through the cracks in farmhouse walls, under the doors, down the chimneys. In northwest Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined to a 200-mile strip between Canada and Mexico, last week's dust storm suddenly swirled eastward over Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi to unload on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana...
...breed so many merry monks as some people think, but Catholic priests may smoke cigarets, take a nip now & then and let their waistlines go in middle age. In the evangelical clergy austerity prevails, and of the large evangelical denominations the one which least countenances clerical laxity is the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist asceticism reached its apogee in 1924 when a Methodist conference voted to insert in the Church's Book of Discipline the following: "We [ministers and laymen] . . . record our solemn judgment that the habitual use of tobacco is a practice out of harmony with the best Christian...
Last week this half-forgotten judgment was dug up by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of Washington, D. C., 68, president of the Methodist Board of Temperance, and brandished over the head of a Methodist conference in Seaford, Del. Asked for an opinion on smoking, Bishop Hughes warmly gave it: "If I felt that I could not live up to my obligations as minister, I would hand in my credentials and stop preaching. I would not walk up & down the streets a self-confessed liar by puffing a cigar. . . . Many ministers complain they are not getting results in their works...
...years ago. Vice President is Rev. William Lloyd Imes, Negro pastor of Harlem's St. James Presbyterian Church. Others of the 75 union members: Rabbis Israel Goldstein, Alexander Lyons and Sidney Goldstein; Dean Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Rev. Cameron P. Hall; Methodist Rev. F. Theodore Minor. Least parochial to carry a union card is Rev. James Myers, able researcher, idealistic unionizer, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches...