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...years ago, was built in Chicago the Temple-"Methodism's skyscraper church." On the ground floor is the First Methodist Episcopal Church: above are 20 floors of offices of which, according to a statement made by William W. Dixon, Secretary-Treasurer of the Chicago M. E. Church Aid Society, 81% have been rented...
...studied medicine is a quack and subject to legal control; even a high school teacher must be duly certificated. Is there not at least a moral obligation that a man professing authoritative leadership on evolution should first familiarize himself with the subject?"-Dr. Edward L. Rice, Ohio Wesleyan University (Methodist...
...appreciation of a 13-year administration during which the University grew from a body of 1,347 students to one of over 12,000. At the same time, the trustees appointed as Dr. Murlin's temporary successor Bishop William F. Anderson, prelate of the Boston area of the Methodist Episcopal church...
...Englishman, son and grandson of Methodist ministers, Dr. Cadman devoted his scholarly efforts at Richman College, London, to Philology and the Classics. He was ordained at 26, after study at Illinois Wesleyan. In his handling of his second pastorate (at Yonkers, N. Y.), he exhibited a genius for organizing that lifted him high and brought under his hand four Manhattan churches. The Brooklyn call came in 1901, to the Central Congregational Church. He is known as a pulpit orator, widely read, hard of head, a man whose breadth of information (his specialty is the Oxford Movement) keeps abreast...
...Europe recognized one as supremely valid-the Holy Roman Catholic Church. With the year 1500 began such a tremendous movement of diversity that by 1900 there were at least 100 Christian "churches." In the U. S., the largest group is commonly known as Evangelical and includes the Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian and other "churches" or variations of the same to the number of 30.* During the last Century, most of these churches yielded their claims to being the sole depositories of Christian truth and informally recognized each other's essential Christianity. The pendulum began to swing back from diversity...