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...Stanford conference was full of other tantalizing phenomena that seem to merit thorough investigation. Olga Worrall, director of the New Life Clinic at the Mount Vernon Methodist Church in Baltimore, told how she had cured warts and emotional disorders, and even helped cancer patients by the laying on of hands. Dr. Robert Bradley, a Denver obstetrician who is also president of the American Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine, reported on the use of hypnotherapy, long ago proven effective in relieving pain and easing childbirth, to speed healing from surgical wounds...
...Mary, 17, is a senior in high school and an occasional poet. She recently went through her own moral struggle over religion and left the Methodist Church to become a Roman Catholic. Her specialty is the pep talk. "I gave a little talk in Prince Georges County, Md., to the volunteers. I told them they were the backbone of the campaign, and that my father would win in November because of their hard work. I did it in 30 seconds...
...Utrecht-it is a much more orderly process, with the maneuvering smoothed over by ecumenical diplomacy. But in other respects the man who won the World Council's chief executive post last week outdid both of Wallace's fictional contenders. He is Philip Alford Potter, 51, a Methodist from the West Indian island of Dominica. By geography and persuasion he is a Third Worlder. He is also black...
...former school athlete who once won prizes in the 100-and 200-meter dashes and the broad jump. He still hikes out on geology field trips when he finds the time, likes to listen to Baroque music at home with his wife Doreen, the daughter of a Jamaican Methodist minister. During an interview in Utrecht with TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, the General Secretary-elect puffed on cigarillos and sipped a beer. The grandson of a rum distiller, he explained that West Indian Methodists were not as legalistic about alcohol as U.S. Methodists officially were. "My own witness as a young...
Trained at Jamaica's United Theological College and London University, Potter was pastor of a Methodist church in Haiti until 1954, when he joined the W.C.C.'s youth department. Haiti helped to mold his view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society...