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Last week Methodist Harvester was still with the 315th, getting ready for active duty. But now his authority was different: he was chaplain. Happy in his new job, Chaplain Harvester said: "Civilian churches are important, but I think the services to these boys are more important ... If we lose these 18-and 19-year-old men from religious life now, we lose them for all time from the churches...
...stay that way long. A Methodist minister from western Pennsylvania, Daniel Marsh was a burly man with a bubbling vitality and the Bible in his blood. He was up at 6 each morning, and by the time he got off to work ("Decisions! Decisions! Decisions!") he had his little black notebook filled with the things he wanted to do for B.U. The things he did-and the decisions he made-turned the campus upside down...
Tennessee. As part of his emphasis on youth work, Dr. W. C. Newman, pastor of Memphis' First Methodist Church, set aside a special, dimly lit "Daters' Balcony" for teen-agers at Sunday services...
...Methodist Church, largest united Protestant body in the U.S., reported new gains. During 1950, membership in the U.S. and its possessions rose nearly 150,000 to 8,935,647. Contributions were also up, from...
Stephen Crane was born in Newark in 1871. He was the frail 14th child of a gentle Methodist pastor named Jonathan and an unyielding force of nature named Mary. "You could argue just as well with a wave," her favorite son once said. Baby Stephen's first intelligible query is supposed to have been: "Ma, how do you spell O?" He was obviously destined to be a writer. When he died of tuberculosis at 28, he had been that and other things...