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...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...
...could turn Buddhist if it pleased and still own it. So could a Jewish congregation. A Congregational group has the same freedom, but the Congregational-Christian Church-like U. S. Baptist bodies-may hold mortgages on its constituent churches so that they may not pass out of its control. Methodist churches are held by national bodies; Presbyterian churches by local trustees, reverting to local presbyteries if they are dissolved. Church laws apart, State laws of incorporation may limit a church to the activities for which it was specifically incorporated...
Last fortnight 61 Episcopal and Methodist bishops in the U. S. appealed to the Catholic hierarchy to remonstrate with the Rightists, all of whose leaders are Catholic, about bombing civilians. At Vatican City last week it was officially announced that Pope Pius has already done so "on his own initiative." Reported the semi-official papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano: "General Franco appeared to have been touched by the paternal interest of the Holy Father in the innocent victims of the war and sent to the Holy Father filial and reassuring explanations and declarations...
...have often been criticized because they devise spectacular, worldly ways of getting apathetic Christians into church. British parsons now sometimes go them one better. Motion pictures are packing British churches on Sunday nights, largely because of the relatively good films produced by the Religious Film Society, backed by rich Methodist Miller Joseph Rank (TIME, Feb. 14). By last week, 200 British churches had been equipped for sound pictures, new installations were being made at the rate of one or two a day. To familiar objections against such "pill-sugaring," an executive of the Film Society, Rev. Stanley M. Edwards, replied...
...Laplante completely, baffled as well those who saw his film. Even the missionary, who has spent ten years trying to implant French Catholicism in Fiji, was ready to admit possibility of something preternatural. He remembered having tried to convert a certain native. The man demurred; he was already a Methodist. When the tribe combed the river, the dusky Methodist waded inside the net with the vampire-priests, was bitten by a shark...