Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first days in court Mrs. McCollum's lawyer called in a Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Lutheran, a Jehovah's Witness, a Quaker, a Fundamentalist, a Christian Scientist, to prove that Champaign's religious teaching discriminated against their faiths; but several of the witnesses said just the opposite. The school-board lawyers then tried to show that the issue was not between sects, but between religion v. atheism. They succeeded with Mrs. McCollum's father, Arthur G. Cromwell, who is president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished...
Many people at home & abroad were horror-struck when a so-called Christian nation used the atomic bomb against its enemies. But one Methodist clergyman was not at all surprised...
...Francis Asbury, a British harness maker's apprentice, decided to become a preacher. At 26, he came to America. During the 1784 Baltimore conference, where the Methodist Episcopal Church was formed, Preacher Asbury, as yet unordained, was on successive days ordained deacon, elder, consecrated "superintendent" and (despite John Wesley's "strong objections) immediately started calling himself Bishop...
...Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnarn and Lawyer John Foster Dulles, speaking for the Federal Council of Churches: "If we, a professedly Christian nation, feel morally free to use atomic energy in that way, men elsewhere will accept that verdict . . . the stage will be set for the sudden and final destruction of mankind...
...staunch Methodist, like his late multimillionaire father who had made a fortune in. the flour-milling industry in Great Britain, Rank entered the film business to produce religious shorts. But in ten years he has become the most successful producer in England, head of the United Kingdom's biggest chain of movie theaters, and as a result of a deal made last year, exchanges films with 20th Century-Fox Film Corp...