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...Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church called at the White House. Bishop Joseph F. Berry said to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...Methodist Episcopal conferences took place last week - the semi-annual conference of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church (at Washington) and the quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South* (at Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...prayer desk before him. It was an accurate watch, he said. He would give God ten minutes precisely. . . ten minutes to demonstrate that He existed by striking him, Sinclair Lewis, author, dead where he stood. The people in the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church waited patiently. In the Independence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church a few blocks away, a "golden wedding choir" (men and women who had been married 50 years) was singing "Shall We Gather at the River?" Some of Mr. Lewis's listeners had thought of going to the other church that morning; they wished now that they had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lewis | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...Methodist Church is out-heroding Herod in its demand for the religious control of our people. They have organized their Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, have a building of their own in Washington and, with the zeal of Torquemada, are striving for the ecclesiastical mastery of private conduct, not through the Gospel but through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Committee Hearings | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Hatrack," or "Fanny Fewclothes," is described as a prostitute who went to the "Northern Methodist Church" of Farmington repeatedly, but was so rebuffed by the whole congregation that she always returned to her ancient trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hatrack | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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