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When a friend told her that she was cut out for the ministry, Methodist Margaret Henrichsen, 42 and newly widowed, laughed at the idea. But the thought took root. In a matter of weeks, Mrs. Henrichsen was submitting sample sermons to the district superintendent near her home in Melrose, Mass., and she was plugging away on a correspondence course for ordination. Then, eight years ago, she was offered a rural parish covering four townships around North Sullivan, Me., ten miles from Bar Harbor. Within a few days, she sold her home, sank the money in a '38 Oldsmobile...
...retired world president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, defeated candidate for Congress on the 1920 Prohibition "Send a Mother to the Senate" ticket; of a stroke; in Brooklyn. With the battle cry, "Tremble, King Alcohol! We Shall Grow Up!", Ohio-born Ella Boole, widow of a Methodist minister, helped pressure Congress into passing the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment...
...Southern Methodist: "It is not unknown to see SMU students letting nature take its full course in the back of automobiles, in daylight, on the college campus...
...Joint Committee on Public Affairs) that four candidates (or presumed candidates) for the presidency are Baptists-Harry Truman, Estes Kefauver, Harold Stassen and Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. The committee also concluded that California's Earl Warren is at least a half-Baptist; he was raised a Methodist, but usually attends the Baptist church of his wife and daughters...
Friends & Enemies. Gradually Pastor McConnell's vigorous church work got him the grudging admiration of the orthodox. At the Methodist General Conference in 1912, when he was only 40, he was made a bishop. "At present," he observes, "the bishops have quite a bit of ceremony for the new men. There was nothing of this kind in 1912. One of the bishops said, 'We are meeting in Room B. Come on in.' I went in." When he came out, the new bishop had been assigned to the Denver area (including Methodist missions in Mexico), where he traveled...