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Meredith took correspondence courses as a G.I., later attended the Negro Jackson State College in Mississippi, but decided that it was "substandard." Reared as a Methodist, he gradually evolved beliefs bordering on mysticism. "Everybody's worrying about life," he said. "But if I can't live this life then I don't have it. In my feeling, I'm already dead. I want to go to the university. This is the life I want. If I can get it then I have my life; if I don't then I might as well not have...
...cart with four wheels-and one of the wheels is slow to turn. The Presbyterian and Episcopal churches and the United Church of Christ continue generally to favor the dramatic project that Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake put forth in 1960. But the largest denomination involved, the 10 million-member Methodist Church, has deep doubts. Washington's John Wesley Lord, though he is one of the few Methodist bishops who speak out strongly in favor of merger, says: "Methodists have the least enthusiasm, and with good reason. We're strong; what do we need...
...them to join him in reciting a close cousin of the New York State Regents' Prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, our loved ones and our country.'' Hollywood Psychiatrist Bernice Harker. a Methodist, has installed a tiny chapel in her office for the benefit of waiting patients and passersby. "I don't claim any miracles from it," she says. "It is my idea that God is available and loves everybody, and we might as well get in tune and let him help...
...rarely include the range of fringe benefits, from paid-up pensions to book allowances, that stretch the clerical dollar. Nearly every established parish in the U.S. provides its minister with tax-free housing, plus repairs and utilities allowances. Admits Dr. Ben Morris Ridpath of Kansas City's Trinity Methodist Church (salary: $11,000): "It would cost me $300 a month to rent a home like the parsonage I have now." Although relatively few ministers in the larger Protestant denominations have time to accept sideline jobs, their wives do; in Miami, Baptist congregations commonly allow ministers to hire their...
Ralph Lord Roy, pastor of Manhattan's Grace Methodist Church, the group lined up in single file outside the city hall. The Northerners included 54 Protestant ministers, nine rabbis, six Roman Catholic laymen, four Protestant and two Catholic women active in church affairs; all but 19 of them were white...