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...GEORGE WERNER The Saugerties Methodist Church Saugerties...
...just this principle. One plan would join all churches that function "episcopally, congregationally and presbyterially," leaving local congregations free to administer the sacraments of Baptism and Communion in their own manner. A second plan is for a "federal union" in which each denomination would remain an entity, e.g., "the Methodist branch of the United Church of Christ...
Born on a farm near Rogers, Ark., the son of a man who was studying for the Methodist ministry, Loy Henderson went to Northwestern University ('15) and Denver University Law School (1917-18), served with the American Red Cross during World War I and the aftermath, came home in 1922 with such interest in foreign problems that he took the stiff foreign service exams. Passed and appointed, he performed energetically in junior jobs from Dublin to Moscow, brilliantly in Washington as head of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (1945-48), and as Ambassador to Iraq...
...football coaches be Christians? Can athletes become outstanding laymen in the church? Apparently not, says James W. Carty Jr., religious news editor of the Nashville Tennesseean in the current issue of the Methodist monthly Together. He quotes a pessimistic sports photographer: "In games, sportsmen divorce their conduct from their religious principles." and Editor Carty, a member of the Disciples of Christ, agrees 'that "this dark stain in our sports fabric" has spread over the whole athletic field...
Using the same circulation system and editorial approach, Methodist-sponsored Together will probably pass a million by its first anniversary in October. As indicated by the growth of such other middlebrow religious magazines as the monthly Catholic Digest (circ. 884,820) and the weekly Lutheran (176,100), the U.S. religious press has at last learned to treat subscribers as readers first, churchgoers second. Said Together Publisher Clark: "We feel we are reaching some of the marginal millions on the periphery of church interest...