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Though Janitor Bibb's dust also was given the final blessing of the African Methodist Church, he was a member of neither sect which honored his memory. Reverently Rabbi Isserman declared: "His psalms were his services faithfully rendered and his prayers were his scrupulous conscientiousness. . . . There was almost an ecstatic rhythm in his dusting of the pews...
Dorothy Thompson was a journalistic "natural." Daughter of a Methodist minister, she tried social service, advertising, found neither satisfactory, joined the bustling exodus of young U. S. literati who went abroad in the early 1920's. First reporting Miss Thompson did was freelance work for London papers. When she brought in the last interview given by famed Irish Hunger-Striker Terence McSweeney, Fleet Street began to take Miss Thompson seriously. Soon a roving correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she achieved another resounding scoop by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Austria at the climax of his second attempt...
...National Peace Conference. When not engaged in special efforts such as the drive begun last week, this group spends some $500,000 a year plus a small grant from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Its secretary is Dr. Walter William Van Kirk, a 44-year-old Methodist who has been Secretary of the Department of International Justice & Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches for the past ten years. Currently Dr. Van Kirk is preparing a "master file" of U. S. peace-lovers' names...
...Chicago last week the Conference of Methodist Laymen chalked up its first substantial victory since it organized last summer to combat "radicalism" in the churches (TIME, Sept. 23). Though it refrained from publicly taking credit for the deed, the Conference had succeeded in easing a Methodist minister named Rev Dr. Archey D. Ball out of the pulpit he had held for four years in First Church Englewood...
...prevent Englewood's poor from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher...