Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps it would be wise if some of our Methodist divines would use Pastor Keiding's type of strategy...
...sorrier sight than a clergyman errant, about to be unfrocked. From his embarrassing plight the pious eye is usually averted, but a congregation in Muncie, Ind. last week found this impossible. As Sunday evening service was about to begin, 50 people sat uneasily in Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Behind the pulpit stood their 55-year-old pastor. Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, tall, spare, grim-faced, with lank grey locks falling over his high forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, thought beer legislation would be "a stab in the back for every other legitimate industry." Asked how he, if a Congressman, would balance his conscience against his constituents, he replied: "I'm not a balanced or reasoning man. I'm a fanatic. My conscience would never permit me to vote contrary to my convictions...
Deets Pickett, researcher for the Methodist Episcopal lobby: "The liquor interests are planning to expand their trade by exploiting boys and girls, particularly girls. They are planning to fasten their grip upon the nation by secretly controlling the newspapers, paying the private debts of men in influential positions, subsidizing writers, boycotting manufacturing concerns hostile to them, infiltrating their agents into public and private organizations, misleading the foreign born and working in close agreement with the disloyal, the vicious and the criminal." Researcher Pickett described himself as "a reasonable...
...prison because they believe confession excuses their crimes and ends the matter. Not cited in Father McCaffrey's article is the fact that Catholics in prison are more publicized than non-Catholics because their priests do something about them. Nobody hears about the religious views of a Methodist criminal. But a Catholic makes copy, as when Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley, killer of Patrolman Frederick Hirsch, refused meat on the Friday before his execution (TIME...