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...Hampshire, the Republicans' liberal, maverick, Bible-quoting Senator Charles W. Tobey, 70, over 35-year-old Candidate Wesley Powell, professed conservative, for the U.S. senatorial nomination, by 1,420 votes after a rugged and bitter campaign (TIME, Sept.11...
...public offices-including the governorship and a seat in the U.S. Senate-than anyone in New Hampshire; he had never been beaten. Last week for the first time, aging (70) Senator Tobey was running hard. He was up against a hard-swinging, 35-year-old war veteran named S. Wesley Powell...
...your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak."-I Corinthians 14:34. *Not O God, etc. The gratuitous change was made by Methodism's Founder John Wesley in his Collection of Psalms and Hymns...
Perhaps the most prolific hymn writer of all was Methodism's Charles Wesley, who turned out the words of some 7,000. Hymns were an important means of spreading the Methodist doctrine of salvation for all, as opposed to the dour Puritan teaching of predestination. Wesley's most successful effort: Jesu, lover of my soul, of which Henry Ward Beecher said: "I would rather have written that hymn than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat upon the earth." Brother John Wesley, a busy hymn writer himself, issued some precepts to choirs which, thinks...
...bright-eyed Lucy Mitchell (wife of the famed Columbia economist, Wesley C. Mitchell) such rigidity seemed all wrong. To do something about her convictions, she went to her wealthy cousin, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,* got a promise of $50,000 to start a "bureau of educational experiments." Taking over an old four-story yeast warehouse on Greenwich Village's Bank Street, she opened one of Manhattan's first "progressive" nursery schools. Over the years, she also hired psychologists, physicians, educators and social workers to study child growth and maturity levels from infancy to adolescence...