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Chautauqua's site, beside Lake Chautauqua in New York's southwestern tip, was once a Methodist camp-meeting ground. In 1874 a Methodist circuit preacher named John Heyl Vincent and a pious Ohio inventor named Lewis Miller held a two-week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once...
However much he mixed in Iowa politics, President Jessup, a good Methodist with Quaker upbringing, has always kept clear of campus squabbles. He reads widely and quickly, keeps two secretaries on the run, lets up only for fishing trips...
...year-old Methodist churchman who somewhat resembles an older, stouter Franklin D. Roosevelt sat by his radio one night last week in his home in Madison, N. J. He tuned in on a broadcast from Constitution Hall in Washington, where was being celebrated the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Had his health permitted, Dr. Frank Mason North would have joyfully been present. He, more than any other man, had helped found the Federal Council, was its president for four years (1916-20), is still a member of its executive committee...
...Mergers: Free Baptist-Northern Baptist; Presbyterian-Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ; Evangelical Association-United Evangelical; Congregational -Christian; Reformed-Evangelical Synod. Three separate groups formed the United Lutheran Church. In Canada the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches fused in the United Church of Canada...
Last Sunday night and the Sunday before, a short-wave broadcasting station in Pittsburgh took a half hour of worship to the thousands of Presbyterians, Baptist and Methodist missionaries in every land...