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...pushing his way through the crowd, a sailor who had been one of his most persistent hecklers offered him a box of throat lozenges. " 'Ere, guv'nor," he said. " 'Ave one. I bet yer need it after that." "Thanks, chum," replied the Rev. Donald Soper, president of the Methodist Church in Britain...
...Calorie Diet. After his regular open-air session on Tower Hill last week, Dr. Soper grabbed a quick lunch and a train for Walton-on-Thames to conduct a Communion service at 4 p.m., address a rally of church supporters, then deliver an evening sermon to a packed congregation. He was already suffering from a bad cold, caught at nightly outdoor meetings in the South Wales ports of Cardiff and Swansea and in the uplands on the English-Welsh border...
...Donald Soper, 51, such strenuous witness is the only hope of Christianity and Methodism. When he was elected president of the British Methodist Church last July, he called, in his acceptance speech, upon his fellow Methodists for "greater adventure in open-air evangelism . . . lively, informed, joyous . . . work and worship." He continued the lunch-hour meetings at Tower Hill, where he has been preaching his vigorous version of socialist-pacifist Christianity for the past 26 years, and did his best to follow founder John Wesley's example of making all England his parish...
...difficult to see how ethical and even Christian sanction can be claimed for such a policy. I must respect the sincerity of Mr. Dulles, a fellow churchman; but I earnestly beg him to beware of what Britain's leading Methodist, Dr. Donald Soper, has just called "forging God's signature to our plans...
Boydstun ordered loudspeakers rigged outside the funeral home, engaged the Rev. David Soper of the Assembly of God ("If we aren't careful, we could have a cannibalistic attitude in America . . ." said the reverend of Cook's career) and prepared for a big funeral. The coffin, Boydstun assured the public, would be reopened before burial to allow all a good, last look. But that was as far as the undertaker got with his plans...