Word: methodists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, thought beer legislation would be "a stab in the back for every other legitimate industry." Asked how he, if a Congressman, would balance his conscience against his constituents, he replied: "I'm not a balanced or reasoning man. I'm a fanatic. My conscience would never permit me to vote contrary to my convictions...
...human being" and urged her to enter the U. S. women's golf championship, went to Dallas to make the picture last September. Miss Didrikson received no money for performing in it. Football Coach Andy Kerr of Colgate, after watching her tackle 185-lb. male footballers of Southern Methodist University, was even more amazed by the way in which she sidestepped a tackler before throwing a 40-yd. pass. Naturally, Wonder Girl does small justice to Wonder Girl Didrikson's accomplishments...
...Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they may commit to it. Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, retiring president, addressed the delegates on Christian Unity, which, said he, "you can't get ... among churches simply by passing resolutions. . . . You have to think together, you have to live together in terms of Christian fellowship, and the first thing you know, union is simply...
...until last week no U. S. Protestant denomination had given full, official approval to Re-Thinking Missions, the report made public last month by the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry (TIME, Nov. 28). Of the seven denominations whose laymen were concerned in the Inquiry, only three mission boards-Methodist, Baptist. Congregational - have guardedly agreed to cooperate...
Nebraska, Big Six champion, ended its season with a trip to Dallas and a beating, 21-to-14, for Southern Methodist...