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...William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank A. Home of Merchants' Refrigerating Co., Methodist Board of Missions, often referred to as the "greatest lay Methodist...
...Methodist College. Gratefully, King Zog made a gift of 380 acres of land last week to Dr. Samuel Wesley, director of Methodist missions in Italy. Upon this land Methodist Wesley had offered to build a modern college to train Albanian teachers in U. S. Methodist methods of instruction. Funds for the faculty of the new college will come from famed Duke ("Bull Durham") University, North Carolina...
Aged Clarence Darrow debated prohibition in Washington, prior to sailing to Bad Nauheim, Germany, for heart-trouble cure.* His opponent was Dr. Clarence True Wilson (Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals). Lawyer Darrow fascinated his audience by such outbursts as "Methodists are not good Christians. . . . They rule by hate- not love. Their methods are assassination, starvation, intimidation, preferably assassination...
While merger meetings were being held throughout the land, representatives of six churches (Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, South, Society of Friends, Lutheran. Presbyterian) convened at Washington to discuss the report on Christian unity prepared in 1927 by the International Conference on Faith & Order at Lausanne, Switzerland. Next week, 100 nationally prominent laymen and clergy will meet at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., to discuss: "Next steps toward a united church." Last week's meetings...
India, Too. At Lucknow was held a conference, the first in Northern India's church history, to discuss the fusion of the United Church of Northern India, Methodist Episcopal Church, English Baptist Church, Disciples of Christ (American and Australian), Church of Brethren and Wesleyan Methodist Church. "Informal and unofficial" representatives of the Anglican Church were present...