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...that clergymen are. The Rev. Shrum Burton, president of the Kansas City Council of Churches, explains that "some laymen have a vague feeling that we are losing all religion in public life and that something ought to be done, but they don't know what." At the recent Methodist General Conference, a resolution approving the prayer rulings was tabled by a vote of 341 to 339. Many school districts have not yet complied with the court decisions, and there are plenty of public schools where the class day begins with a moment of silent meditation...
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY Bishop Fred Pierce Corson, president, World Methodist Council, observer at the Second Vatican Council-Ecumenics...
Noel Day, a local civil rights leader and candidate for the House seat of Speaker John McCormack, will moderate the meeting at The Tremont Street Methodist Church, 740 Tremont...
...Cancer College." The Tougaloo campus, just outside Jackson, is an old Faulknerian plantation dotted with moss-hung oaks. A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building. It is the only integrated school in Mississippi; Jackson racists call it "Cancer College." The dean of students, Methodist Minister R. Edwin King, keeps as a souvenir a charred K.K.K. cross-"the handy field model," he jokes-that was set afire this spring on Tougaloo's campus...
...civil rights demonstrations "in rare instances where legal recourse is unavailable." When one Southern delegate complained that the statement was an incitement to anarchy, Bosley answered: "We won't give an inch on this principle." In other mood-showing votes, the conference set up a fund to help Methodist ministers who may have suffered "economic deprivation" by joining in civil rights activities, and forbade church agencies to discriminate in their hiring practices...