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...want to go full steam ahead until the old boiler bursts," says the Rev. E. Stanley Jones, whose fame overseas as an American evangelist is matched only by Billy Graham. Jones was formally retired by the Methodist Board of Missions in 1954, after 47 years of work -but retirement meant only that he was freed from all church assignments to set his own unflagging pace. In 1963, for example, he spent six months hopping from one missionary outpost to another in Asia and Latin America, filled 736 preaching engagements, spent his vacation writing his 24th book, a spiritual autobiography. Last...
Between Two Worlds. Maryland-born Methodist Jones went to India as a missionary in 1907. He began preaching among low-caste Indians, but eventually decided that it was more important to evangelize among the high-caste Hindus, who made up the intellectual and spiritual leadership of the country. Out of this new mission to the top people grew Jones' rewarding friendship with Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi...
...Methodist Rural Center...
...counseling patience until at least the end of this month. They are also carefully gauging the position of Lyndon Johnson. So far, the President's resolute support of the civil rights bill has been encouraging. Says the Rev. L. Sylvester Odom of Denver's African Methodist Episcopal Church: "Personally I wouldn't be surprised if President Johnson gets more out of Congress than President Kennedy could have. He may not get as deeply into the hearts of the people, but he may do pretty well with
...Churches, show that Roman Catholicism continues to make the greatest gains. The U.S. now has 43,847,938 Catholics, an increase of 2.3%. The largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention (10,191,303), which took the lead for the first time since the organization of the present Methodist Church (now 10,153,003) in 1939. But in relationship to the total U.S. population, Protestant affiliation declined by .3% since the previous year...