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...Methodist to Madness. At 38, Earl Wilson is a chunky, sad-eyed little (5 ft. 6) fellow with an ear tuned for the casual wisecrack, an eye cocked for the offbeat feature story. The Saloon Editor comes from saloonless Rockford, Ohio, where at twelve he was choreboy for a country weekly, and later taught Methodist Sun-dav school. When he landed...
Everybody in Spartanburg County was certain that 24-year-old Gene Atkins would be a success and a great credit to the community. Wrote the ladies of the Cross Anchor Methodist Church: "It is men like you, Pfc. Atkins, that makes this America of ours the wonderful place...
...blow that cracked the Methodist chaplain's neck did not break his Christian spirit. One morning, he recalled, "the sky was particularly brilliant" and it seemed that "all of the earth was worshiping God. . . . Although the Japs were not like humans, they might still become human. I decided that God was able to create a human, so He must be able to make of that human what He wants...
There is "serious tension developing between Roman Catholics and Protestants in the United States." That is the opinion of Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches. To a mass meeting of Protestants in St. Louis this week, Bishop Oxnam said: "Roman Catholic and Protestant alike must discover and remove the causes that make for unbrotherly division...
Boston's Methodist Bishop Lewis Oliver Hartmans offered $10 to any city editor who could justify the newsplay...