Word: methodists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since 1919, when, in criticizing the condition of the steel industry, he rebuked the late Judge Elbert Henry Gary and spoke harshly of the 12-hour working day prevalent then, Bishop McConnell's name has been perhaps more familiar to laymen than that of any other Methodist. Always vitally interested in questions of public as well as churchly import, Bishop McConnell headed the active Committee on Christian Unity and Industrial Problems at the recent International Missionary Council in Jerusalem. At Kansas City, Bishop Mc Connell was assailed on almost frivolous charges of "maladministration and immorality. " In transferring...
...many recent proposals for uniting the Presbyterian Church with other de nominations? The Presbyterians refused to consider amalgamation with such sects as Christian, Universalist and Congregational Churches, because doctrinal differences seemed too extreme to eliminate at this time. To the more consequential proposal which they had received from the Methodist Episcopal Church (TIME, May 21 ), the Presbyterians gave a warmer rejoinder. They elected a committee to confer during the year with a similar Methodist committee to see what could be done about joining the two huge denominations
...last week of their Quadrennial General Conference, the potentates of the Methodist Episcopal Church set out to elect three bishops. Two they rapidly chose: Dr. Raymond J. Wade of Chicago and Dr. James Chamberlain Baker of Urbana, Ill. Over the many able candidates for the third, they wrangled and ballotted 19 times without avail. At last the two leading candidates withdrew their names, a Korean lady made a potent speech and the Methodists elected the 33rd Bishop of the Church by a sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ...
...TIME, May 21, it was stated that the Conference voted away the eight-year time limit upon; the tenure of office of Methodist bishops . . . this phrase was incorrect. It should have been "tenure in a given residence...
Lynn Harold Hough, when he retired from the ministry of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, attended a dinner given in his honor. At this dinner there were present a rabbi, Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth-El, and a Roman Catholic priest, the Very Rev. Father John Patrick McNichols, president of the Catholic University of Detroit Father McNichols praised the Methodist preacher in a short speech; then, on behalf of the Catholic institution, he bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws for having displayed "outstanding tolerance...