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...Americans have elected Presidents of varying religious faiths-Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Reformed Church in America and even Unitarian. Since the Roman Catholic Church is the largest single religious body in the nation, it is not surprising that we have elected scores of Catholic Congressmen, Senators and Governors. The election of a Catholic President would be fully in keeping with the American political ethic, which makes no distinctions based on race, color or creed...
Board of Missions of the Methodist Church...
Then they set off on a barnstorming tour sponsored by Manhattan's American Committee on Africa, a liberal pressure group that is headed by the Rev. (Methodist) George M. Houser. Next week Banda flies back to London to continue his negotiations with the British government, but Kaunda has a month-long schedule of visits to Washington, the Mid-West, and the South. High point: a meeting with some young U.S. Negro leaders of the lunch-counter campaign in the South, to compare notes on tactics...
...Douglas survey, some prominent MWs have given their own opinions. The wife of President Eisenhower's Presbyterian pastor, Mrs. Edward L. R. Elson, is impatient with any talk about the difficulties involved: "I think they're all dividends, myself." Mrs. John Wesley Lord, wife of the Resident Methodist Bishop in the Boston Area, agrees that "the satisfactions are unique and abundant. A minister's wife has a whole congregation to love and call hers. And she's also blessed with the services of the best doctors, dentists, and other professional men in the community-and often...
...Says Methodist Harry Haines, who superintends schools, cares for lepers, ministers to a large congregation in Kuala Lumpur: "The day of foreign missions as such is past, but a new and better day is here...