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...University Band is the main attraction of the evening, but there will also be a speech by Wesley H. Murray, Vice County Commander of the Middlesex County Council of the American Legion...
...does not have to be decided until well along in February. By that time, perhaps the Republican Senators will remember, through renewed daily contact, the industry and ability of the tall, rugged, quiet Senator who sits just in front of Leader Curtis and is his Whip, Washington's Wesley L. Jones, expert on shipping and tending up to business. While a Moses smart-cracks and a Watson frowns or booms into space, while a Borah watches from on high and a Reed haggles and a Fess fusses, Senator Jones keeps his eyes upon and his nose in a mountain...
...Prime Minister, grandson of a Methodist pastor, said of John Wesley, famed pioneer of Methodism...
...Wesley's supreme legacy was his conception of practical religion for the ordinary man and woman. I believe that you cannot understand America unless you understand Wesley. In America ten per cent of the people are Methodists. To Wesley Christianity was primarily a way of life...
Methodists know that in the standard edition of Wesley's Journal, he wrote about himself that, as a young man "I had no notion of inward holiness" but lived "habitually and for the most part very contentedly in some or other known sin." Later, honest, forthright John Wesley became a High Church Episcopalian Clergyman, finally espousing Methodism. At the apogee of his potency, Pastor Wesley traveled some 5,000 miles a year, preaching and founding Methodist churches...