Word: methodists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still, the professor was no pedant. A China-born Southerner, he was the son of a Methodist missionary and the grandson of Nathan B. Forrest's chief of staff; he came to Dartmouth in 1913 after teaching in Brazil and ranching in California. For three decades, Lambuth asked only that students think hard and write straight, looking to such models as Belloc, Conrad, Chesterton and the English Bible. "Clear thinking and not a mastery of rules and a memory full of difficulties is what makes good writing," Lambuth summed up. "If you have a nail...
...call him "Mr. Ecumenicity," and he aptly symbolizes the council's current interest in church unity and building a more effective central machinery. Mueller has been in charge of the slow-paced but steady negotiations that will, hopefully by 1968, bring the E.U.B. into organic union with the Methodist Church. He has also been an active participant in the "Blake proposal" conversations, which may, in distant time, lead to a grand union of the Methodists, United Presbyterians, Episcopalians, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ and the E.U.B...
...raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda in a drugstore. In Nashua he visited a Methodist church, and devoured a steak in a restaurant while a crowd stood outside in the rain and peered at him through the window. In Manchester he bought a pair of overshoes while photographers recorded the purchase...
Texas 17 Southern Methodist...
...Dimes. Miles missed its first possibility soon after it was founded in 1905. Finding coal on the campus, Tennessee Coal and Iron eased the school to another site and started a mine. That left Miles with little more than its name, which honors the first bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the Negro denomination that founded the school. This year the church was able to give Miles only $26,000, or less than one month's payroll. As for the rest, says President Pitts, "all these years Miles has been supported by nickels and dimes from washerwomen...