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...Majesty's Government, said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, will pay the premiums instead, thus insuring the rebuilding of bombed-out churches, chapels, parsonages, parish houses. This was good news indeed to British churchmen, who have already seen thousands of churches bombed, including 200 Methodist and 114 Baptist in the London area alone...
Soon to consider Malvern in one way or another are the Federal Council of Churches, the United Christian Council for Democracy (coordinating body of Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Congregational and other church social-action groups), many another U. S. church organization, and-most important of all-the conference of leading churchmen of the Western Hemisphere summoned by the World Council of Churches to meet in Toronto this June. As special guest the Toronto Conference is expecting the Archbishop of York, with his help plans to draw up a worldwide plan for post-war society. Keynote for its deliberations was struck last...
...nearly 40 years. Both were born in Missouri's northwest corner, the rolling prairies of the Platte River country. They met as legal eaglets at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Both, on graduation, went to St. Louis to practice. Both became members of the same Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in a "nice" residential district; both joined the same Scottish Rite Masonic lodge; both became trustees of the church and members of the Salvation Army's board. Mrs. Donnell and Mrs. McDaniel for 23 years have been members of the same Mother-craft club, and their children...
...Methodist. Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops: "Last spring the Methodist General Conference took the stand that 'the Methodist Church will not officially support, endorse or participate in war.' This is a more strongly pacifist attitude than would be taken by the majority of ministers today. . . . Large numbers [now] believe the future of Christianity itself is related to the defeat of this new religion of totalitarian force...
...although stage interest suffered something of a setback when W. C. Fields announced that he didn't need Moral Re-Armament but would take anything in a bottle. Gertie did a scene from Susan and God and preached a sermon at the late Rev. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's Broadway (Methodist-Episcopal) Temple. The New Yorker hailed her entry into the pulpit with the comment: "That, fellows, is our idea of divine service...