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...from Protestants and Catholics alike. The Inter-Racial Department of the Institute of Social Order (a group of Jesuit priests dedicated to improving the social order in America) has asked permission to reprint up to 100,000 copies of the story for distribution throughout the U.S. G. Bromley Oxnam, Methodist Bishop of New York, was moved to write: "To me, this is journalism at a high level. It is the finest statement of the case against racial discrimination that I have read, in addition to being a splendid revelation of the heart and mind of a distinguished artist...
...habit. For ten years John J. Sparkman had taught Sunday school in his home town of Huntsville, Ala. Then he went to Congress, but it did not keep him from his old ways. Three years ago he became the regular Bible teacher for adults at the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting his class in the chapel for an hour every Sunday morning. Last week, with Congress once more in session, Methodist Senator Sparkman was back in his Sunday-school job. The topic for study: the Gospel according to St. John...
...Democrats' Barkley deplored such "partisan politics." The incumbent, Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, a Methodist, had served the Senate faithfully for four years. He had opened the session with prayers for harmony...
What kind of man do Methodists want their minister to be? To find out, Dr. Murray H. Leiffer of Garrett Biblical Institute at Northwestern made a two-year survey. To all district lay leaders,* plus samplings of Methodist women and youth, Dr. Leiffer's Bureau of Social Research sent a formidable questionnaire. The result, published this week in book form and titled The Layman Looks at the Minister (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $1.50), makes 160 pages of required reading for theological students. Laymen will find it an absorbing composite of the country's largest Protestant church body...
...Minister's Job. Methodist laymen reserve their highest disapproval (98%) for the minister who "seems pessimistic and defeatist concerning the achievement of the goals of the Christian Church." Explains Sociologist Leiffer: "This does not mean that Methodist men and women desire a Pollyanna religion or preacher. . . . But they expect their religious leader to have . . . a belief that good eventually will triumph, and a consequent assurance and patience even in the face of disappointing conditions...