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Unlike Catholics and Episcopalians, Methodists do not believe in that "Apostolic Succession" by which bishops derive their spiritual powers from an unbroken line of bishops dating back to the time of Christ. Methodists feel a Methodist bishop is just a plain man in an ordi- nary business suit who puts "Bishop" rather than "Rt. Rev." or "Most Rev." before his name. He is not attached for life to any one diocese but may be transferred from one Methodist "area" to an-other by the conference which elects him. Last week in Columbus, Ohio the 3 2nd quadrennial General Conference...
...Alexander Preston Shaw, 57, of New Orleans, is editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Most Methodist bishops look alike, with their white faces, firm jaws, thin lips. Bishop Shaw is physically unique in that he is a Negro. He is to succeed retiring Negro Bishop Matthew Wesley Clair of Covington...
...Other Methodist work done last week...
...potent Committee on the State of the Church rejected a proposal to broaden the grounds on which Methodist ministers may remarry divorced persons; turned down a "fanatical"' suggestion that "cup" be substituted for "wine"' in the wording of the communion service ritual; sent to the general conference an opinion that unofficial groups like the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service may continue to call themselves Methodist provided they emphasize their unofficial status...
...such occasions Baritone Thomas is addressing a homey, kindly-faced old lady who lives in the house he bought for her in Towson, Md., tends her garden, mows her own lawn, harks back constantly to the days when her John was a lad singing in the churches where his Methodist father preached...