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...Superintendent Wheeler. The League is essentially a religious organization. Mr. McBride is a minister who, after education at Muskingum College, had several obscure pastorates before beginning his unsensational rise in the League's service. There are other anti-salooning ministers more powerful than he. Principally there are two Methodist Bishops ? Nicholson of Detroit, Cannon of Virginia...
Ever since 1920, the need for reapportionment has been simply one of common honesty. Being a simple matter of honesty there was naturally no crusade in favor of it. The Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, raucous in defense of the Eighteenth Amendment, never mentioned it. President Coolidge never mentioned it. Candidate Smith never mentioned it?because as many Democrats as Republicans had opposed it. Probably not one voter in a thousand had the least idea that the question of reapportionment existed...
...John Wesley, man of God, has suffered neglect in an irreligious age, modern popular biography has come abundantly, desperately, to his rescue. Author Lee, spirited Texan Methodist clergyman, enriches a sound, engrossing history with cogent anecdote and incident. Author Lipsky, Jewish student of psychology, makes a shrewd analysis of the itinerant preacher who founded, in spite of himself, the largest extant Protestant denomination...
John Wesley, staunch Tory supporter of Church and King, had not intended that his Methodist societies conflict with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...
Divorced. James Cash Penney, Jr., glider enthusiast, son of the famed chain store tycoon and devout Methodist benefactor of Whiteplains, N. Y., & Miami; by Marie Louise du Coudray Penney of Manhattan. Two days after their marriage in 1924 the Penneys were separated...