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...convert the thousands to his enlightened cause, not to have his chosen people converted to the cause of the thousands. Confidently he sailed to Europe with his mind stuffed full of convincing diatribes, never once considering the danger to his own well pastured sheep, safe, as he thought, in Zion City and in the confident belief in the flatness of this unbelieving world...
African Methodist Episcopal Zion...
James--Marks, Zion v. Sanford--Gessinger, Scharnikow
Last week at Douglaston, Long Island, onetime farming community, now haven of commuters, a teapot which had simmered for many a long month finally boiled over. The simmering started in February when the vestry of Zion Episcopal Church asked the pastor, Rev. M. W. Black, to resign. In asking for the resignation the vestry offered Rev. Black 18 months pay if he would leave quietly, permanently, and at once. Rev. Black, married, father of three, quietly refused to leave, continued to occupy Zion's pulpit. In August the vestry, vexed, refused to pay Rev. Black further salary. Still...
...Story * Metabel Adams walked over the hills from Early. It was the spring her father died. "Trembling and meek he stepped into Jordan's dark icy water, the cold tide froze him, and he came out again in Zion with a look of peace; he seemed to be saying humbly to the angels, 'I don't amount to much, but I feel friendly...