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Pastor Hemingway was 24 when he came to town 33 years ago to take over the Lapeer Methodist Protestant Church. He was what the townspeople called a "visiting preacher"; he never forgot the people who lived too far away or were too sick to come to church regularly. When radio came along in the '205, he determined to expand his job at the Methodist church into a mission of the air. He tried to interest nearby cities such as Flint and Saginaw in setting up a broadcasting station strictly for religious programs, but he got no backing. Frank Hemingway...
...Bromley Oxnam, Methodist bishop of New York, spoke yesterday in Memorial Church. He quoted St. Paul to show that with a revitalized faith men would be able to live in harmony...
After six weeks of pondering, Iowa Judge Shannon B. Charlton finally made up his mind on a question before the court: Was Methodist William B. Small of Waterloo unmistakably clear in his instructions when he left the income from $75,000 of his estate for the benefit of "persons who believe in the fundamental principles of the Christian religion"? (TIME, Oct. 22.) Judge Charlton's answer...
...militant organization with the nonstop name, Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Aim: to reach 100 major audiences in ten weeks, wind up in a P.O.A.U. rally in Washington, Jan. 24. ¶ In Chicago, an audience of more than 3,000 heard Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam attack the appointment of an ambassador as "unwise, unnecessary and un-American," then voted by acclamation to "oppose the confirmation of this nomination ... in every legitimate way open to us in our democratic system." There was one loud "Nay!" The "Nay" man said he was a good...
...Members: the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; the Rev. Eugene C. Blake, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (North); the Rev. Reuben E. Nelson, general secretary of the American Baptist Convention; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister at large of the Congregational Christian Churches; the Rev. Ben. R. Lacey, president of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Southern Presbyterian...