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...Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church Bayville...
...century to the time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival meetings. Young Olive went with him. played a portable organ when she was so small that she wore blocks strapped to the bottom of her feet in order to reach...
There is considerable difference in the Methodist Episcopal Church between a deaconess and a deacon. A deaconess is a woman who, with specific training, is consecrated to parish service of some type, such as visiting, nursing, church secretarial work, hospital chaplain, or social service. A deacon is a man or a woman who has received the first of two orders of ordination to the ministry. Uldine Utley [TIME, Dec. 30) was recently ordained deacon, not consecrated deaconess...
Rose Bowl. In Pasadena, 85,000 including 2,000 sombreroed Texans, watched a favored Southern Methodist attack, led by an All-America mite, Bobby Wilson, falter before Stanford's rugged defense, finally fall 7-to-0. Outstanding star was none of the four All-America players, but Quarterback Bill Paulman who scored Stanford's touchdown in the first period, intercepted four passes, kept Southern Methodist at bay with booming punts...
...skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway, correctly considered the Alps ideal skiing terrain. In the U. S., the first skier on authentic record was the Rev. John L. Dyer, a Colorado Methodist preacher, who used skis to carry mail to his parishioners in the early 1850's. Norwegians in the Midwest organized the first U. S. ski-jumping tournament...