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...husband Warren, charging cruelty. Husband Eaton filed a countersuit, going his wife one better by charging she kicked him while he was bending over a toy last Christmas eve. Seeking custody of their daughter Mabel, 10; and their son Warren Jr., 5, Father Eaton submitted that he is a Methodist, that his wife had announced that that denomination is one with which she would not permit her children to be connected. Mr. Eaton said his wife had brought home atheist pamphlets, schedule of atheist meetings, Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and an I. W. W. songbook...
Among radical U. S. preachers, Methodists are most numerous and outspoken. Their most vehement and powerful critic is Publisher Hearst, who is being ably aided by a Midwest organization called the Conference of Methodist Laymen. Within the past fortnight Mr. Hearst and the Methodist Laymen have been violently exercised by the following events and utterances on the Social Gospel...
...Marshall Reed, of Detroit's second largest Methodist church, preached: "There has been a marked tendency in recent years . . . to label anyone who questions our status quo a 'Communist.' . . . Communism presents a definite challenge to the Christian religion. If Christianity cannot create a better social order . . . then there is little hope for the universal Kingdom...
...Because a concern for freedom of speech and civil liberties is part & parcel of whatever variety of belief radical ministers hold, they tingled to a report from the Methodist Federation for Social Service that "Fascist" terror, force, violence and intimidation were on the increase in 1935. Last Sunday all U. S. Unitarian ministers were invited to read and comment upon a "Statement on Civil and Religious Liberties" sent out by the Unitarian Department of Social Relations. The Statement particularly deplored teachers' oath statutes...
...Evanston, Ill. gathered a regional meeting of the Methodist Federation for Social Service whose executive secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Union Theological Seminary, is a prime target for Red-baiters. Because small, mild-looking Professor Ward was present, and because the meeting voted not to make its deliberations public, Chicago religious editors purposely performed marvels of Pharisaical reporting. They made much of their conclusion that "Red" literature was for sale at the meeting. Rev. John Evans of the Tribune inaccurately reported that the Federation voted to cooperate with Communists. The Conference of Methodist Laymen, whose secretary, a Chicago businessman...