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...Methodist Federation for Social Action is a small (membership: 4,000), unofficial organization of bishops, ministers and laymen founded 43 years ago "to promote social action in the spirit of Jesus." Many a distressed Methodist has come to think that its real aim is to promote Karl Marx. The Un-American Activities Committee has used a short, ugly name for the federation: tool of the Communist Party. Last week, under the severest accumulated criticism in federation history, 56 of the 4,000 members turned up for the annual meeting in Evanston, Ill. Main question: Should they save, or sack...
...five days, the National Convocation of Methodist Youth was in full throat and full swing at Lafayette, Ind. "I wonder what you have to do not to get applause in this crowd," said one speaker, after they had applauded him for sneezing. "I noticed last night that we even applauded after prayer...
...hundred volumes, including French and Spanish grammars and Shakespeare. But for William Johnson, free man of color who hired white help on his farm and had many white well-wishers, there was still a line which he could never cross. Even when he decided to hear a famous visiting Methodist preacher, he had to listen from outside the church...
...road in Lincoln Forest for the annual meeting at Nogal Mesa. Four times a day they filled the rough pine tabernacle (which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...
...contrast to her mild, quiet husband, who never scolded the boys, Mamie Thurber was a hurled hand grenade. The class comic in school, a star at amateur theatricals, for a while she considered running away from home and going on the professional stage. Her stern Methodist father scotched that, clamping down on even the amateur theatricals, but it made no difference. Mamie kept right on performing...