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Language Barrier. The merger brings together two groups that have held certain common beliefs ever since their beginnings in the 18th century. The Methodist movement was founded in England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before...
...Harvard's trouble on behalf of the Indians, the College turned out only one Indian preacher. The single success, John Sassamon, attended Harvard for just one term in 1653 before he left to preach to the Wampanoags at Natick. (Sassamon is remembered less for his preaching than for his murder, which touched off King Philip...
...strange that the same issue of TIME that discusses the possible death of the organized church [April 12] should memorialize a black preacher who changed a nation from a thousand pulpits? The life and death of Martin Luther King would prove more than enough to accent the meaning and power of the church today...
...mild-mannered James Stewart-a simple sodbuster who carries no gun and wears a badge emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape the town half-breed (Barbara Luna). This results in one of them being killed by the town half-wit (J. Robert Porter...
There are two playwrights inside Paddy Chayefsky - one is a pixy and the other a preacher. When the pixy handles the pen, it can turn out a funny, wryly perceptive comedy like Marty. When the moral preceptor is in command, the result is likely to be a chalk-dusty lecture like The Passion of Josef D., with its dreary analysis of Stalin's rise to power. Chayefsky's latest work, The Latent Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing eye-catcher...