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...Noah W. Cooper, Chairman of the Methodist Church Sabbath Crusade, presented his visage and his hand to the President. Mr. Cooper suggested forcibly that the spiritual health of the nation would be greatly improved if on Sundays all interstate commerce, all newspapers, all sports, all business were suspended. He said: "Every one of the 2,500 Sunday trains is tooting America's downfall. America must emancipate her 10,000,000 slaves to Sunday labor or go to ruin." (See RELIGION...
...Evangelist Ufford, in the leafy village square of Westwood, Mass., was exhorting the villagers with much gusto yet with some despair, for on the outskirts of the throng he noted many youths and maidens giggling and cutting up. How frail are their ties to the Church, reflected the young Methodist, even as he labored and prayed. They were drifting. . . sinking. . . . Phrases floated across his thoughts, took form. Later, at home, in half an hour he composed his hymn, which has been translated into nearly all major languages. Once in a tour of the world, he dramatically played out his hymn...
...attraction of the sins of Manhattan for ministers of the Gospel from the hinterland is periodically demonstrated, and never more clearly than last week when the Chairman of the Sabbath Crusade Committee of the Tennessee Synod of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, opened his mouth in the Bible House, Manhattan...
...With Methodist money the Sabbath Chairman telegraphed every railroad president, asking cooperation. One replied. Frederick D. Atterbury President of the Erie, said he would be delighted to abolish Sunday trains; they lose money...
...only bigoted beggars in the whole of Christendom. In Weaver's "Black Valley," that interesting novel of missionary life in Japan, the author draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...