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When Alfred Emanuel Smith was a presidential candidate, many a man and woman voted against him for fear the Catholic Church might meddle with the U. S. government. Last week, New York's Senator Royal Samuel Copeland, a Methodist, charged that the church was meddling with U. S. affairs. But it was the Methodist Church, not the Catholic, to which he referred. Senator Copeland charged that the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals in Washington were lobbyists; that in 1927 they had tried to influence his vote on a prohibition measure.* Said the Senator in an open letter...
...Michigan Christian Advocate, denouncing the methods by which the tobacco trust is coining the blood of babies into dividends, says, 'The trust has overstepped itself in its greed.' The Advocate will find in the ranks of its allies thousands who are decidedly against baby-killing."?Bulletin of The Methodist Board of Morals...
...Open Letter also quotes many an anti-cigaret speech and editorial, including the previously cited Methodist Moral Bulletin. Said the Salt Lake City Deseret News: "Damage incalculable . . . dastardly campaign." Said Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, head of International Society of Christian Endeavor: "Womanhood is being exploited for trade...
Died. Dr. William Westley Guth, 57, of Baltimore, president of Goucher College, onetime lawyer, Methodist pastor, classmate (1895) of President Hoover at Leland Stanford, in Baltimore...
Enemy to the Russian Orthodox Church is the Soviet Government. But Soviets can be subtle. To combat orthodoxy they chose not atheism or agnosticism, but Baptist and Methodist missionaries. The Soviet plan: to foster Baptist activities and thus enfeeble orthodoxy. This was in 1921. Last week the shrewd Soviets had to admit they had blundered...