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Uncritical Leftism. The consistent radicalism of motive has frequently brought it into conflict with Methodism's leaders and has won it such scornful epithets as "a jester in the house of Wesley." When the magazine first denounced segregation, a group of Southern bishops demanded that it cease publication. One of those who came to its defense was the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who showed up at a meeting of the education board with several copies of motive under his arm. "I have read every word of these," thundered the best-known Methodist liberal...
...held by New Hampshire's first Democratic Senator in decades, Thomas MacIntyre. Thyng, who quit the Air Force to run in the Republican primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor Wesley Powell. Thyng opposed civil rights legislation and foreign aid and insisted that increased conventional bombing of military targets in North Vietnam would halt Hanoi's capacity to fight -- and end the war, of course. The ground war in South Vietnam didn't interest him much. The decisive factors...
...Damon, 5, and Tahnee, 4, in school in England, Raquel has flatly refused to confirm that she has ever been married or even that the tykes are hers. Milan's weekly magazine Gente did its bit by publishing photostats of Raquel's license to marry one James Wesley Welch in Clark County, Nev., on May 8, 1959. It was a minor coup. What Raquel-watchers really pine to know is whether she's currently married to Patrick Curtis, 31, her agent, business partner and steady house guest. "I neither deny nor confirm the report that...
Compiling a hymnal for his fellow Methodists in 1761, John Wesley admonished them to "sing lustily," keeping always "an eye to God in every word you sing." True to his urging, Methodists have always been among the most song-minded of all Protestants. This week their brand-new hymnal arrives in church pews with the largest advance sale of any book in U.S. publishing history: 2,154,000 copies...
During the past century, every revision of the Methodist hymnal has tended to reduce its Wesleyan content. Reversing the trend, the 1966 edition includes 81 hymns by John and Charles Wesley, 20 more than the 1935 version contained. Also included is a nostalgic fundamentalist favorite that was left out of the previous hymnal because it did not suit the musical palate of the time: The Old Rugged Cross. All in all, proudly sums up the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, retired Bishop of Western North Carolina and one of the supervising editors, "it's the greatest hymnal...