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Wesley bade his U.S. followers use the printing press too. Here it worked still better. Backbone of its success: circuit riders who stuffed their saddlebags with Methodist literature, supplemented their slim stipends by doubling as book peddlers. Methodism's strength in the Middle West dates directly to libraryless days when preachers' saddlebags were a valued source of reading matter. Every minister was also a subscription agent, and by 1830 the Methodist Christian Advocate had the largest circulation of any U.S. periodical -30,000 (its 1941 circulation: 275,000). It grew so rapidly that the post office...
Started in Manhattan in 1789 on a borrowed capital of $600, the Methodist Board of Publication is America's oldest and biggest religious publishing house. Last week it reported a whopping $5,524,429 gross in the first combined year of operation since the Methodist Episcopal, M.E. South and the Methodist Protestant Churches merged to form the country's largest Protestant church. Last year it printed 1,500,000 books and 130,000,000 periodicals. Last week, by appropriating $200,000 of its 1940-41 proceeds for ministerial pensions, it ran the amount it has given to Methodist...
...Lord's Acre project may be as modest as a pig-North Carolinian Betty Mae Cope raised one for her Methodist church, netted $15.50-or as big as the planting done by farmers near Hendersonville, N.C., who ran up a whole new $8,000 Baptist church with their tithing. Hendersonville's Baptists raised $2,352 in a single year by the Plan. Men fattened pigs for market or planted extra crops. The men's Bible Class grew potatoes as a group project, made $469. Women gave the "Sunday 5" from their flocks, grew flowers to sell. Children...
...spiritual life. How he taught himself to practice medicine, how he saved the life of Tycoon Chia's son, how he brought Pai-tan through the plague, famine, banditry, how he overcame the deep Teutonic hatred of his German Reverend Mother, made friends with the Methodist missionaries, was tortured by bandits and escaped, make up most of The Keys of the Kingdom...
Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...