Word: methodistly
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Jackson, capital of Mississippi, birthplace of the Confederacy and scene of Jefferson Davis's last speech (1884), has a population of 48,282 souls. When members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, began planning their 22nd quadrennial conference, they were invited to think of Mississippi. They chose Jackson, smallest town in winch they had ever met. Last week Jackson's hotels were brimming with Southern Methodists, 708 delegates and alternates, male and female, laymen and churchmen. In best gown, business suit or frock coat they attended a reception at the Governor's mansion, motored about the surrounding...
When the Jackson conference opened last fortnight, many a delegate was anxious to elect Southern Methodist bishops henceforth for stated terms, instead of for life with retirement mandatory only on account of age (72) or infirmity. Also there are vacancies in the Methodist episcopacy: two because of death and three because of the pending retirement of three well-beloved prelates, Horace Mellard Du Bose, 75, of Nashville; Collins Denny, 79, of Richmond; and Warren A. Candler, 76, who, a member of Atlanta's Coca-Cola family, received newshawks one night last week in his oldtime white cotton nightgown. Would...
Common Task, When Yankee Methodists in 1844 sought to oust Bishop James Osgood Andrew as a slave-owner. Southerners objected that under Methodist law that was no ground. The two branches shortly parted. Fortnight ago in the episcopal address delivered by Rt. Rev. John M. Moore of Dallas, representing the mind of the Southern Church's 14 living bishops, one passage read: "We cherish the hope that at some time we shall be wise enough to find a way whereby a united Methodist may with undivided energies and unwasted resources deliver her full strength upon the common task...
These matters disposed of, the Southern Methodists: 1) voted their faith in Prohibition; 2) elected a new council of nine which will supersede the bishops as a church court of appeals; 3) came out for peace and conscription of wealth as well as man power in wartime; 4) flayed immoral motion pictures; 5) changed the name "Sunday School'' to "Church School"; 6) approved a plan to seek 750,000 new members during the next quadrennium: 7) voted that admission requirements to the Southern Methodist ministry include four years in college; 8) denied women the right of ordination...
...away!" ordered Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...