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...Reverdy Cassius Ransom is one of the patriarchs of Negro religious life in the U.S. The oldest bishop in one of the country's oldest Negro denominations, the African Methodist Episcopal Church,* frail-looking Bishop Ransom, 88, still works-as research director-for the church he has served for more than 60 years. In the current issue of the picture magazine Ebony, Reverdy Ransom writes his "Confessions of a Bishop," a gentle, detached look into some of the trials and triumphs of a man who has ministered well to his people...
...affection which reached a crisis one September afternoon. On that day, while Sergeant Paight underwent an exploratory operation, Ditty and her mother went to St. Mary's Church and prayed. Sergeant Paight was a Methodist; his wife and children Roman Catholics. In Ditty's mind was the recollection of an aunt and a great-aunt who had died of cancer. Ditty and her mother went back to the hospital. There Dr. William E. Smith gave them his report: Sergeant Paight's case was hopeless; he had at the most two months to live...
Barkley in unabashed and happy rebuttal. "Since I got married, such people as Clark Gable, Mayor O'Dwyer, Dick Tracy, Miss America and even the Methodist bishop* who married us have caved in-and I don't believe Sam Rayburn can resist much longer...
...modern pastors know more than Manhattan's popular Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman about getting the most out of the practical tools and duties of his calling. Last week, in addition to his other duties, he was appropriately appointed associate professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary...
...preaches on NBC's National Radio Pulpit to one of the biggest religious radio audiences in the U.S. Then, at his Byzantine-style church on Manhattan's Park Avenue, he holds a regular Sunday morning service (with enough ceremony and liturgy to jolt many a low-church Methodist). So many people come to hear him that at 5 in the afternoon he repeats his morning service...