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...many magnificent drums and tramplings the 350-year-old King James Version might as well be in the original Greek for all the sense most moderns can make of it. In 1946 a group of delegates from the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, and Britain's Methodist, Baptist and Congregational churches unanimously agreed that what was needed was not a revision but a completely new translation...
Together, "the family magazine of the Methodist Church," is offering cash awards to the college students who write the best articles on "Why I Go to Church." The announced purpose of the contest is to determine the vitality of campus religion...
TIME did an excellent job on the characteristics of the major Protestant denominations considering reunion but made one major error. The Methodist Church does not have a purely memorial view of the Communion and never has held such a view. Article 18 of the Methodist Articles of Religion states clearly: "The bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ; and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ." As further explanation, it reads: "The body of Christ is given, taken and eaten in the Supper, only after a heavenly and spiritual...
...resolution was voted on by representatives of the Anglican, Methodist, Congregational and two Presbyterian churches, all of whom backed the entire document. Also among those voting were the three Dutch Reformed Churches, at least some of whose representatives backed it. Later the Dutch Reformed Churches found it necessary to clarify their stand. The smallest of the three churches-Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk with over 200,000 members-rejected the resolution and stood pat for total segregation. The two largest-the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerks of Cape and Transvaal, with a combined membership of more than 1,200,000-insisted as before that...
Luckily, many of the A.F.L. owners are moneybags, who knew that losses would come before profits. Founder of the league-and owner of the Dallas Texans -is soft-spoken Lamar Hunt, 28, onetime bench-riding end at Southern Methodist and son of Texas-sized Millionaire H. L. Hunt. Brash Bud Adams, 37, owner of the Houston Oilers, is the son of the chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Barron Hilton, 32, son of Hosteler Conrad Hilton, is president of the Los Angeles Chargers...