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...favor of the principles and practices of super-government as exemplified by the Anti-Saloon League, the Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church and by their ancillary organization, the late, unlamented Ku Klux Klan...
...favor of having any religious denomination, Protestant or Catholic, backed by a nation-wide militant organization, established at Washington for the declared purpose of exercising what the Methodist Church now openly assumes to exercise, namely, the functions of censorship and dictatorship over all branches of our constitutional government...
...reminder that Chinese are now prospering hugely in immigrant colonies on the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo & Java was put forward, last week, by U. S. Methodist Bishop Titus Lowe, as he arrived in Paris from his bishopric in Singapore. Said he: "The Chinese have invaded Malaysia by thousands. Not only do they supply men for day labor but they run banks, steamship lines and other great business undertakings...
During the last year, more than 32% of U. S. Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches failed to secure a single convert "by profession of faith." These figures, amply documented, were presented to the Men's Church League last week in Manhattan. If they hold true for other denominations, 60,000 out of the total 200,000 U. S. Protestant churches failed to gain a single convert during 1927. Of the remainder, many gained only one or two. Much perturbed, the League asked itself: "What is the matter with the Churches...
...Springfield, N. Y., William Morgan drove past the Methodist Episcopal church, heard organ music. William Morgan knew that no church service was scheduled for that hour, so he stopped his car, tiptoed into the church and peeked at the tramp who was playing hymns. Then William Morgan went off to find the minister of the church and a policeman...