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...Governor Landon is nominated at Cleveland, pious people who dislike the Roosevelt religious record will have a chance to vote for a Methodist who goes to church about as irregularly as the present President...
...Columbus, Ohio, the 32nd quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church toyed gingerly with birth control. Placed before the 600-odd Methodist delegates was a memorial supported by Mrs. Sanger's National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and signed by three Methodist educators, one Manhattan minister, numerous church board members and trustees of the Women's Home Missionary Society. The memorial cited "indorsements"' of birth control by Methodist regional conferences, by other Protestant and Jewish bodies. It urged that Methodism, indorse "the principles of birth control legislation now pending in Congress." Sent to a committee...
Population centre of the homely, zealous, intensely personal religion founded by John Wesley is, according to Methodist statistics, Columbus, Ohio. Last week in the Columbus Public Auditorium gathered 616 delegates to the 32nd Quadrennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. These bishops, ministers and laymen were to be in session for at least three weeks, threshing the accumulated problems of four years. Aware of the deep eco nomic differences among Methodists, the church press had been anxiously predicting a "Battle of Columbus." Battle was joined last week with a few popping squibs...
Purge? Methodism of the extreme Right in a number of U. S. localities is represented by Laymen's Conferences patterned after the one formed last summer in Chicago's Union League Club (TIME, Sept. 23). On the extreme Left is the Methodist Federation for Social Service, whose guiding spirits are its big, shrewd, sarcastic president, Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, and its wiry lit tle British-born secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. For 29 years the Federation has sniped at Capitalism with out attracting much attention. Last week, however...
...teaching and our work. . . . Often we defeat ourselves not by saying a thing, but by saying it too much! Ere long we create a feverish audience that is utterly wearied of the sounding of one string upon the harp of God! . . ." At this plea for moderation, the Methodist delegates laughed and applauded. They also applauded a resounding denunciation of "the forces of inebriety" and a reference to the projected reunion of North- ern, Southern and Protestant Methodist churches (TIME, Aug. 26). This the Columbus Conference made its first order of business. Despite objections from liberals against segregating Negroes...