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...Harry L. Bowlby, secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, was reported as having picked out the smallest man in the room (a stenographer), knocked off his glasses, punched him.* Somebody called the police, but they did not arrive until after Hattie Pitts of the McKendree Methodist Church lifted her hands and her voice in prayer, shrieked: "O Lord, O Jesus, have mercy on these men." The roughnecks ceased their buffeting. This, the third fistibuster in Congress within a week, caused Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts to pass around among his friends a resolution providing that all future bouts...
...relief, advice and counsel." Dr. Fosdick's confessional is by no means unique among Protestant ministers. Every preacher who has listened to the confidences of his congregation has heard confessions. But few ministers have cared, or dared, to use the Roman Catholic Church term. Of the few are Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh, Reverend Ralph W. Sockman and Reverend Thomas Guthrie Speers of Manhattan. Not so John Roach Straton. At his fellow Baptist, Harry Emerson Fosdick, he sneered: ". . . Rockefeller's pulpit puppet...
...South's so-called Bible Belt, was seen last week in an action of its president. Dr. William Preston Few, president of Trinity College (1910-24) and of Duke University since Trinity married a fortune, arose before the education association of the southern wing of the Methodist Episcopal† Church, and obtained almost unanimous support for a resolution: "We . . . here put ourselves on record as opposed to all legislation that would interfere with the proper teaching of science in American schools and colleges ... we are opposed to legislation because we believe it will be futile and can serve...
...TIME, Jan. 24, you speak of "the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals." Let me inform you kindly that there is no such organization. It is the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. And we are not a "sect" as you state in completing your sentence. We are a denomination or branch of the Church of Jesus Christ; as are also the Armenian Church, the Coptic Church and other branches of the Church of Jesus Christ...
...Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Bridgeport, Ohio...