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Four years ago Dr. Grover Carlton Emmons, a mild-mannered Southern Methodist who had held pastorates in the West and Southwest, became secretary of Home Missions, Hospitals and General Work for his church's Board of Missions. Unsure what his general work was supposed to be, Dr. Emmons finally decided to publish a devotional periodical. He planned one. and found a name for it when he heard a Richmond minister mention "the Upper Room"* in a sermon...
Against the judgment of his superiors. Secretary Emmons had 100,000 copies of The Upper Room's first issue printed by the Southern Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tenn. They were sold in no time. By last week this pocket-size quarterly (10? to 50?, depending upon binding) had broken all records in U. S. religious publishing. No 1938 issue had run under 1,000,000 copies. The winter issue, out last week and advertised as suitable for Christmas greetings, will reach 1,250,000. Altogether, nearly 10,000,000 copies have been sold...
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov. 9, (UP)--Bishop Harold Wesley Flint of Atlanta, Georgia, attending the meeting of the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, suggested tonight that, "It would be a good things if a hurricane or earth-quake could destroy all our churches once in a century...
...grandson of Vermont Methodist ministers, softspoken, convivial Wesley Sturges, 45, is probably the most popular man on the Yale law faculty. He looks and acts more like an enterprising businessman than a Ph.D. professor or parson's son. A director of the American Arbitration Association, he won the D.S.I.'s attention few months ago by settling two minor scraps between Connecticut liquor dealers...
...most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister. His itch for politics took effect one day in 1916 when he substituted for his father on the platform at a Republican rally, made a hit as a boy orator. Elected to the House by his lead-mining district in 1928, he made an unsuccessful try for the Republican...