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Quakers Shakers. Raised as a good go-to-meeting Methodist, Psychiatrist Sargant examined the dramatic conversions made by Methodism's Founder John Wesley, decided that they fitted Pavlov's pattern. After early failures, Wesley turned his back on appeals to the intellect, made a frank and crude assault on the emotions. He preached so eloquently and graphically of the horrors of hell-fire.and brimstone that the wayward among his hearers found the prospect an unbearable stress, says Dr. Sargant. He quotes Wesley as describing meeting after meeting at which the penitent burst into tears, cried aloud, sweated profusely, shook...
Died. John Wesley ("Colby Jack") Coombs, 73, big-boned baseball great, pitcher in both leagues (1906-20), who hurled his best season (1910) while on Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics (31 victories, including three World Series games, and 13 shutouts, only 9 losses); of a heart attack; in Palestine, Texas...
Edward S. Penny has been appointed the next chairman of the Law School Fund, Wesley E. Bevins, Jr., Fund director, announced yesterday...
...John Wesley, a specialist in bringing the wicked to their senses, conceded that for work of this kind, nothing was handier than an earthquake. "There is no divine visitation." he wrote with a connoisseur's relish, "which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners." Methodism's Founder Wesley thus neatly expressed the theme of a curious and scholarly account of the great Lisbon earthquake, in which Sir Thomas D. (for Downing) Kendrick now traces the long-forgotten relation between sin and seismology...
...store for him: a new home. He had signed a contract to buy (for $75,000 on a property appraised at $67,500) the 21-room (six bedrooms), old stone house owned by the late Homer Cummings, onetime (1933-39) Democratic Attorney General. The approximate moving date to fashionable Wesley Heights in northwest Washington: mid-March...