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...speech took Bishop Oxnam, standing short and solid on the stage of huge, dismal Mechanics Building, two hours to read. He reviewed Methodist gains since the General Conference of 1944 ($27,011,243 raised for world relief and reconstruction; a record one-year gain of 1,063,734 new members). He restated the traditional Methodist stand against "the liquor traffic" and its "advertisements that seek to associate whiskey with success rather than with the gutter." He deplored the growing tendency of Methodist-founded universities and other institutions to break away from their church affiliation. Then he came to the main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop's Challenge | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Jubilee stay-at-homes can still get in a little dancing tonight at 8:30 o'clock, when the Wesley Foundation of the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church holds its May Day Dance. The church is on Massachusetts Avenue at the first stop-light north of the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News in Brief | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

Happy Birthday. Last week, on Best's 52nd birthday, the trial ended. His sister Louise, a Methodist missionary teacher who had come up from Brazil, gave him a box of chocolates. His brother Aaron, principal of a Durham, N.C. high school, gave him a carton of cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: None Too Good | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Four peace-seeking Methodist readers laid a modest proposal in the lap of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's mighty, isolationist Chicago Tribune. Would the Tribune please cooperate, they wrote, in "the creation of a favorable public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Harm in Asking | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Easter Services (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC Television). Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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