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...sparkplug of Louisville's Committee on Institutions is a small, bespectacled, 58-year-old businessman named George W. Stoll. One Sunday in 1940, Methodist Stoll left church after an especially inspiring sermon. He overheard someone say: "I've heard a lot of sermons like that. They inspire you to do something for your fellow men, but they never tell you what to do or how to do it." Then & there, Oilman Stoll decided that he would put Christian idealism to work in civic life...
Declared the Council's retiring president, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam...
George A. Maran '38 and Paul D. Tibbetts '45 will sing sole parts than the combined choirs of Christ Church. Cambridge and St. John's Methodist Church perform the Christmas section of Handel's "Messlah" in St. John's Sunday at 4:30 o'clock...
...converted to Christianity while studying at Shanghai's Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...
...translating the Psalms the Catholic-Methodist team worked well. Wu's Chinese rendering was based primarily on various Catholic translations in French and English; the unilingual Generalissimo checked against his familiar Protestant versions, indicating his likes & dislikes. Then Wu worked over the passages the Generalissimo did not like, sometimes made three or four tries before it was right. When Editor Chiang nodded and said, "Hao hao (Good good)," Translator Wu knew the team was in agreement...