Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church are and shall be one united church." When Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex. voiced those words, in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium one night last week, 900 delegates to the Methodist Uniting Conference answered in roaring unison: "We do so declare." Bishops and delegates then cried aloud: "To the Methodist Church thus established we do solemnly declare our allegiance, and upon all its life and service we do reverently invoke the blessing of Almighty God. Amen...
...Methodist doctrines and ritual are flexible enough so that little controversy arose over their definition. But over a lengthy and liberal social creed submitted to the Conference, there was a sputter. Delegate Alfred Mossman Landon objected to the section which promised the support of the Methodist Church to conscientious objectors. Youngish Delegate Lloyd E. Foster of East Orange, N. J. shouted that only the "grey-haired and baldheaded" objected to the section. Red-faced, Delegate Landon shouted: "I submit that the argument is a cowardly one!" Nevertheless, the Conference voted down grey-haired Mr. Landon...
Everyone applauded. Then the Conference resumed its work, which it had agreed to speed up. The delegates had voted themselves a modest, Methodist $4 per day expense money, but even that, they discovered, would exhaust their Conference treasury by May 10. Accordingly, they resolved to finish by then. Week's work...
...Formation of a Methodist Board of Temperance, to replace the famed M. E. Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals in Washington...
...Passage of a request (not a law) that Methodist ministers refrain from smoking and chewing tobacco...