Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stucco Colosseum, where boxing and wrestling matches are the usual attractions, covered their signs with new ones reading: WELCOME, BAPTISTS, NO BEER and EAT HERE, NO BEER. In session in the Colosseum last week was the 89th annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention, a body which, like the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, sprang from schism over slavery (in 1845) with the Northern brethren. Next to Roman Catholicism the largest single U. S. church, the Southern Baptist has 4,173,928 members. In Fort Worth representing its 24,270 churches were 5,000 "messengers"' (delegates), 7,000 visitors...
...held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left over from education and lodge meetings he spends studying botany, raising flowers, fishing...
...churches should go on record against war (13,997 to 4,638) and 12,904 affirmed that they will not fight in any future war. As to serving as chaplains the ministers were divided, 8,534 for, 8,014 against, 3,779 in doubt. Most pacifistic single sect: the Methodist Episcopal Church...
...nearly enough education. Four years at Union Theological Seminary and several more at Johns Hopkins to get a Ph. D. in U. S. diplomatic his tory helped to fill his brain with proper learning. Thereupon he successively preached, free-lanced for magazines, helped edit World Outlook, publicized a Methodist Centenary drive, boomed an Inter-Church World Movement, lectured on history at Johns Hopkins, wrote three books (The Democratic Movement in Asia, Americans in Eastern Asia, Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War.} That brought him up to 1924. when Secretary Hughes called him to Washington to be the State Department...
...author is minister of the Wesley Methodist Church in Minneapolis. A widely circulated questionnaire, which has just been tabulated, discloses the fact that of some 25,000 American clergy only five per-cent are content with the capitalistic system. Mr. Mecklenburg belongs to the other ninety-five per-cent. He went to Russia willing to learn. Whether he was let see what he might have liked to see we do not know. He seems to think that he moved about freely; and now, certainly, he speaks out his mind...