Word: methodist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Methodist congregations gained most, 220,183, which made the total membership 8,920,190, somewhat greater than the Baptists count, somewhat more than half of the Catholic Western bodies. The Catholic gain, as shown in the following table, was less than in recent years, chiefly because of the restriction of immigration from Catholic countries. The increase of other denominations grew from the spirited evangelical activities of the year and, doubtless, also from the religious thought induced by the current fundamentalist-modernist and religion-evolution controversies...
...Methodist, 15 bodies...
...anyone will agree who has read his earlier works--has done much better than this. He has apparently lost the flair and vigor of "The Broad Highway" even of "Peregrine's Progress", and the book suffers from the absence of that vitality. True there is Jessamy Todd, the Methodist-pugilist, and an occasional character of the Farnol tradition--which is the Dickens tradition-but they are wraiths compared with the coves he used to draw. A certain dashing style and a gallant exuberance of spirits is necessary for success in the kind of novel Mr. Farnol enjoys writing. And that...
...crowd stood about the steps of the drug store and I ate my banana soda. Cartrack made her small but definite appearance, religion shining from her eyes. Up the street from her home she came with the Gleam in her eyes and betook herself to the Ninth Incorporated Methodist Church, where the Reverend Isaiah Poodle was holding service. There I was told she would sit for ten minutes by the watches of the crowd about the store when she would leave the perfervid Poodle as rapidly as she had come unto him. For the Reverend Poodle had but one subject...
Scandinavian Scandal. In 1924 Rev. Mr. Ingerslev, head of the Central Methodist Mission in Scandinavia, charged that Dr. Anton Bast, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Scandinavia, had fraudulently converted vast church moneys. The Methodist Conference of Denmark excommunicated the complainant. Dr. Bast was locked in jail without bail for four months until five officials of the U. S. Methodist Episcopal Church arrived in Copenhagen and got him released on bail (December, 1924). Last January the Public Prosecutor finally had him indicted on nine counts for the conversion of 635,000 kronen ($165,000). By jury trial last week he was found...