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...Baptist is likely to be a Democrat (49 to 12)-but there are plenty of Methodists for both parties. With 102 Senators and Representatives, Methodists have passed Roman Catholics as the largest religious group in Congress for the first time since 1959. Congress also has a Schwenkfeldian, a Cumberland Presbyterian and a Seventh-Day Baptist -and six members who give no affiliation at all. The figures...
Methodist 102 Roman Catholic 99 Presbyterian 81 Baptist 61 Episcopalian 60 Congregationalist 24 Lutheran 17 Other Protestant 73 Jewish...
...unique setup, their high-school education is provided by the Rabun County public school system, which gives the farm school $1 a year as rent for classrooms, supplies ten teachers and 130 day students (who pay no tuition). To compound these contradictions, overall control is vested in the Presbyterian Synod of Georgia, and the school trustees make a point of seeing to it that religion is stressed for all 230 students...
...council may have an effect as profound as anything since the days of Martin Luther," says Dr. Carroll L. Shuster of Los Angeles, an executive of the Presbyterian Church. Boston University's Professor Edwin Booth, a Methodist and church historian, is so impressed by what Pope John has started that he ranks him as "one of the truly great Popes of Roman Catholic history...
Celebrating his 106th birthday in Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, grand old man of Presbyterian missions, founder of the Protestant ecumenical movement, greeted his admirers with a twinkle and recalled a previous birthday at a school in West Brookfield, Mass. "One hundred years ago today," he said, "I faced an audience for the first time. Then, as now, I said...