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...tiger hunter is the new President of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops. This week some 40 members of the Council, who met at Princeton, N.J., put finishing touches on the forthcoming Bishops' Crusade (TIME, Nov. 22), mapped the Episcopal Visitation Plan (assigning Bishops to preside over the Church's 114 annual conferences in 1944), discussed how many millions of dollars to raise for Methodism's postwar reconstruction program, and chose their new President, highest honor in U.S. Methodism. Because the presidency alternates annually between a Southerner and a Northerner (a courtesy dating from...
...Methodist. Though J. Arthur Rank is a director of some 60 British companies, he sums up his accomplishments in twelve lines in the British Who's Who. In this respect he is just four times as expansive as his fabled father, "England's Richest Man," Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, who parlayed a tiny flour mill into a ?20-30,000,000 milling fortune, and died at 89 last month (TIME, Nov. 22). Besides his millions and his milling business, Old Joe handed down his passion for the Methodist faith and a shrewd and tidy sense...
...next phase of the Crusade will last from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6. During that week, wherever there is a Methodist parish, Methodists will go in groups of two and call on members of the church. They will leave Crusade literature, and the request that everyone in the household write ("at least once a month") to some Government or military official who may have something to say about the peace...
Says the Crusade handbook: "Do not argue or criticize-express your opinion. Do not get up petitions-write personal letters. Do not mention the Crusade-it is not necessary to mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...
Died. Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, 89, England's richest man, an inconspicuous centimillionaire; in Reigate, England. A tall, soberly tailored flour miller, in his Yorkshire youth he felt a call to the Methodist missions, decided instead to follow Methodist Founder John Wesley's injunction: "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." In his fortunate grain deals he counseled with God. When his World War I profits distressed him-and Premier Lloyd George told him that only an Act of Parliament could take his business out of the black-he turned...