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Died. Bishop Horace Mellard DuBose, 82, elder statesman of the Southern Methodist Church, author, editor, temperance leader; in Nashville. Vowed dry Dr. DuBose in 1932: "If the Angel Gabriel should come down and tell me that he had changed his mind on prohibition and wanted it resubmitted, I would not follow...
After the Civil War the brothers pooled their resources, gave some $30,000 to the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to train Negro physicians. The Society handed over the money to Central Tennessee College (Negro), which turned out its first basement-taught class of five Negro doctors in 1877. Their teacher was lean, lanky George Whipple Hubbard, who came from New Hampshire with the Union Army and a carpetbagful of good Methodist intentions. He was soon joined by a onetime Confederate Army surgeon, J. W. Sneed. Nashville ostracized both white men for years...
Born with a bigger circulation than any other Protestant journal, the first weekly issue of The Christian Advocate rolled off the presses last week. Official organ of the Methodist Church, it boasts a hefty initial subscription of over 275,000, was formed by combining seven Methodist papers following the 1939 merger of three Methodist sects into America's biggest (8,000,000 members) Protestant denomination...
Editor of a magazine which should become one of Christendom's most influential is resourceful, go-getting Dr. Roy Lemon Smith, long the successful pastor of Los Angeles' big First Methodist Church, whose "Sentence Sermons" are syndicated in more than 100 newspapers. No pussyfooting puller of punches, Editor Smith's first issue addressed Methodist youth under the heading "Toasting Marshmallows While the World Burns." It suggested that "many church services are being defeated by dig-nity," denounced church boards that are more temporal than spiritual, asked whether Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka had forgotten his debt...
...last July a young Methodist clergyman from Boston University, the Rev. John M. Swomley Jr., stood before the U. S. Senate's Committee on Military Affairs and argued against the draft act. Dark, intense Pastor Swomley snapped up senatorial eyebrows when he said...