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...younger sisters, Hubert grew up in a spacious, white frame house, with an Airedale named Rex, a rabbit hutch in the backyard, a cook in the kitchen, and a green model T Ford in the garage. Mother Christine Sannes Humphrey saw to it that her children attended the Methodist Sunday school and listened to Harry Emerson Fosdick on the radio. Father Hubert Sr. read to the kids each night, but instead of Peter Rabbit, their bedtime stories were the political theories of Jefferson and Paine, basic economics and the National Geographic. By the time he was ten, young Hubert...
Father Humphrey was the local druggist and a person of consequence; he and the Methodist minister (who had been to Harvard) were the town's acknowledged intellectuals. The Humphrey drugstore was a frequent forum for political debate, and the local thinkers always gathered in the Humphrey parlor on Sunday nights, after the Epworth League meeting, for homemade cinnamon rolls and coffee and discussion of the topics of the day. Young Hubert was always a fascinated listener and frequently a precocious participant. "I can never remember going to bed before midnight since I was twelve years old, except when...
...Graham's next stop: Ghana, where a 25-member committee of Protestant leaders has been working since September to prepare the Ghana crusade. Accra (pop. 208,000) had never seen anything like it. Under the leadership of Methodist Minister Peter Dagadu, volunteers had papered the city with thousands of posters, banners, handbills and hymn sheets. Four national newspapers carried ads: CALLING ALL CHRISTIANS-HEAR BILLY GRAHAM-ADMISSION FREE...
Wheaton's religious conservatism is actually more of a drawing card than a drawback to scientists, says Dr. Stanley Parmerter, 39, a Free Methodist, associate professor of chemistry and chairman of the division of science. "Scientists who are also conservative Protestants are attracted to a program like ours, where they can participate as confirmed Christians," he explains. "Our scientists here appreciate the limitations of science. We don't look for God through a microscope...
...theological seminaries of the Methodist Church preparing men and women for the conversations and the conferences that are necessary as we seek to share the riches that are ours, and to receive from others the riches that are theirs, to the end that we may come to know the father of us all? Is the message that we are to speak to the universe a neat little set of dogmatic propositions which we in our limitations have worked out . . . ? Are there answers that we have never heard? Are we ready to hear them, and to act upon them if they...