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...memorial tablet being placed under the statue of the Wesleys [in Westminster Abbey], but for the sake of accuracy and for the credit of the Church of England, I would call to your attention the fact that Mr. Lyte was a clergyman of that communion, and not a Methodist, as stated in your article...
...step farther and do the politically unthinkable: let Donaldson pick his postmasters out of the ranks, on merit, They inquired hopefully about his life, his friends, his foibles and hobbies-and found that he is a very unpolitical person. They did learn that he is a registered Democrat, a Methodist, and a Mason; that he likes flashy ties, and sometimes closes a conversation as he would a letter with "Yours very truly." They also learned that, in his off hours, he pores over a stamp collection...
...Southwest, the headlines had sought out two: Halfback Doak Walker of Southern Methodist and Quarterback Bobby Layne of Texas. Unbeaten S.M.U.'s Walker was the likelier candidate. Last week, though favoring a sprained ankle, 20-year-old Doak Walker scored one touchdown, kicked two extra points as his team rolled over Arkansas...
...other pastors: Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton, Northern Baptist Edwin T. Dahlberg, Disciples' W. E. Garrison...
These words, spoken by the disciples at Emmaus, rang in the mind of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte. All his life long the gentle English Methodist had hoped to leave something behind him to testify to the glory of God. Though his books of poems* were well enough received, Lyte feared that they would not long survive him. In 1847, when he was 54, he felt that his life was almost over. Consumption and asthma, from which he had suffered for more than half his years, would not leave him much more time...