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...Converted chiefly to the Mormon. Methodist. Congregational & Roman Catholic faiths...
...conversion and determined to become a foreign missionary. The circumstance was astounding only to himself, for his family and environment were religious. Foretaste of the interdenominationalism which he was to make world-famed, he had been baptized a Baptist (by immersion), later attended a Presbyterian Sunday School and a Methodist young people's society...
...born 52 years ago. Father Fosdick was a teacher destined to receive much local kudos as long-time high school principal and later Superintendent of Education. Son Harry was the best pupil in town. He won countless prizes, especially for oratory. Once he & friends removed the clapper from a Methodist Church bell and, baffled by the Presbyterian clapper, left it wrapped up in their clothes. But such a prank, except for indicating energy-voltage, was not typical of young Scholar-Orator Fosdick. who knew what he wanted to do and was well on the road to doing...
Bishop Cannon refused to discuss Methodist Church charges against him (TIME, Sept. 29), fired the roman candles of distraction: "Catholics are largely responsible for the feeling against Prohibition. The archbishops, cardinals and on up to the Pope are antagonistic...
Last week, while he was engaged upon church work and a honeymoon in Brazil, came news that a third, more elaborate Cannonade was being prepared. Four traveling elders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South had sent recommendations to Bishop William Newman Ainsworth, chairman of the College of Bishops, that their colleague be put on the mat once more...