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Even this extreme measure may become academic within a few years. Princeton's Methodist Theologian R. Paul Ramsey predicted that "with safe, do-it-yourself abortion medications, abortion will be brought entirely into the arena of private decision." A bit sanguine perhaps, but not beyond possibility. The morning-after and once-a-month pills are still in the early laboratory and testing stages, but medical researchers are hard at work trying to make Dr. Ramsey's prediction come true...
...Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the daily rate for semiprivate rooms is now $50-almost twice the rate ten years ago. At Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, it costs $410 to have a baby, compared with $250 in 1957. At Houston's Methodist Hospital, patients are billed 25% more for anesthesia than in 1962. Everywhere, the story is the same (see graph). While the consumer price index rose 19% in the decade ending last year, U.S. medical costs shot up 42%. Just since 1966, hospital charges have jumped...
Pioneered by a turn-of-the-century Kansas Methodist preacher, Charles F. Parham, Pentecostalism asserts as its basic tenet the need for baptism by the Holy Spirit, the supreme manifestation of which is glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. Dissatisfied with the institutionalized quality of Methodist worship and spirituality, Parham took as his inspiration the message of Acts 2: 1-4, which tells how, as the disciples assembled on Pentecost, "there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues." Hoping to receive the spirit...
...Reverend Gilbert H. Cald-Well, pastor of the Union Methodist Church, charged: "The city naively assumes that whatever is good for Boston is therefore good for the Negro. The Negro leadership has failed because the city has not been willing to take it seriously. The city has not listened.... Much of the energy being expended in Boston in the area of race relations seems to be concerned with devising ways in which to say that there is no problem.... Until the city recognizes the problems faced by its Negro citizens, and demonstrates a massive commitment to solve these problems...
...nineteenth century on, it was an active center of abolitionism; from its pulpit spoke such famous Negroes as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, and such eminent whites as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. The building was also, from 1876 to 1936, the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has since moved to Warren Street in Roxbury...