Word: methodistic
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...pray, by the Holy Spirit," he began, "I propose to the Protestant Episcopal Church that it, together with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, invite the Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ to form with us a plan of church union . . . Any other Churches which find that they can accept both the principles and plan would also be warmly invited to unite with us." The religious issue in the recent presidential election, suggested Blake, showed that the time is not only ripe but overripe. "Americans more than ever see the churches of Jesus Christ...
...take a minimum of ten years to put the plan into effect. This seemed still a bit hasty to Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft (younger brother of the late Senator Robert A.), who plumped for a slower, looser merger. And Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, thought the Blake proposal vague...
...scent of unity was heavy in the air, and all week long Protestant leaders were lining up behind the Blake-Pike lead. Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord endorsed the general principles of the proposal. Newly elected President Joseph Irwin Miller (see below) told newsmen: "Perhaps it's the most important church meeting of the century...
...Previous presidents: Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, Methodist Bishop William C. Martin, Presbyterian Minister Eugene Carson Blake, Baptist Minister Edwin T. Dahlberg...
...struggle went against segregation, the fury of the mob outside the schools increased. The taunts grew more venomous. Husky men began to appear, ominously and silently, among the jeering women. The first to run the white boycott at William Frantz School was the Rev. Lloyd A. Foreman, 34, a Methodist minister. Walking his small daughter into the school, Foreman was shoved by the mob. "Don't touch me," he snapped. "You can talk to me-but don't touch me." Next to brave the mob were James and Daisey Gabrielle with their daughter Yolanda, 6. Gabrielle, a worker...