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With Mather in opposing such bus service was the Rev. Dr. Emory Stevens Bucke, editor of the Zions Herald, a Methodist publication. Former State Senator Edward M. Rowe and Governor's Councillor Patrick M. McDonough spoke in favor of existing free transportation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mather Rips Free Bus Services for All School Pupils | 1/10/1950 | See Source »

Last week, summing up the work of two years, Dr. Toma (rhymes with coma) had remarkable success to report in surgery upon patients from Methodist-sponsored Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, in Los Angeles County. In more than 50 operations on men & women "up to 100 years" he had lost only one patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operating on Oldsters | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Worldly Goods. One fact not generally understood is that the Salvation Army, sometimes called the church of the unchurched, is just as definitely a religious body as, for example, the Methodist Church, from which it is a sturdy sprout. Its soldiers are its parishioners-generally people with regular jobs, who have made the army their avocation. The officers, who have dedicated their lives completely to the cause, are regular ordained ministers. Few of them are intellectuals; all have heard what they describe simply as "a call from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Financial Statement. In Abilene, Texas, after four burglaries at his St. Paul Methodist Church, Pastor Earl Hamlett announced through the columns of the Reporter News: "We do not keep our collection money in the church safe . . . Pickings [there] are either very slim or nonexistent and never worth the trouble, regardless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...fortnight, U.S. Methodists have been studying the state of the world and the dangers it holds for religion. Behind closed doors in a Manhattan hotel, 36 bishops of the Methodist Church spent three days trying to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, the failures and successes of Communism. Last week, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Methodists assembled for the tenth annual meeting of their Board of Missions and Church Extension. Some of what they heard was cheering: Chinese Communists were treating missionaries better than had been expected and the church in the U.S. was growing fast enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Knowing the Enemy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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