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...Church, from mavericks to doubters. Lincoln discovered a tortured personal belief after anguished self-searching. Rutherford B. Hayes seemed proud to say "I belong to no church," though he refused to be publicly inaugurated on the scheduled day because it fell on a Sunday, and later attended the Foundry Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. James A. Garfield was not only a member of the Disciples of Christ but a minister, whose success as a preacher led to his success as a political crowd pleaser...
...little girl emptied her piggy bank in the news room: $9.13. The Centenary Wilbur Methodist Church deposited a tithe of its Sunday collection -and when that added up to only $8, the ushers made it an even $10. The state headquarters of the Oregon Democratic Party sent a check for $1,000, and the Sisters of St. Mary telephoned to say that they had nothing to give but a prayer. It all seemed that sentimental last week when the Portland Reporter (TIME, March 6) struggled back to life after running its own obituary...
Kilson grew up in a little factory town outside Philadelphia. "Ambler, P.A.," he recounts proudly, "was, in those days, the world's second largest producer of asbestos textiles. And since there weren't too many Negroes around, the town was pretty good to us." Kilson's father was a Methodist pastor who ministered to the Ambler Negro community, most of whom were "low-down folk." But the Rev. Mr. Kilson didn't mind. "He wasn't the kind who preached at 'em; instead, his church swung with 'em. And there's a difference, you know...
...individual efforts in research or teaching that are being made with respect to Latin America at several of Harvard's graduate school and at other institutions such as Columbia University, Stanford University, the New York University School of Law, the American Institute of Foreign Trade at Phoenix, Southern Methodist University, Tulane University Law School, and the University of the Pacific at Stockton, California. I appreciate, too, that the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Interamerican Bar Association, the Institute of International Education and other organizations support many worthwhile activities, scholars and otherwise, in or concerning Latin America...
...already share a common church school curriculum and operate joint missions abroad. Observers believe that a formal announcement of merger may be made in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of John Calvin's death, May 27. > At Washington's Wesley Theological Seminary, representatives of the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and Christian Methodist Episcopal churches held a historic first consultation on the possibility of union. Leaders discovered no doctrinal disputes that would prevent the eventual creation of one Negro Methodist body with a combined membership of approximately...