Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last July a young Methodist clergyman from Boston University, the Rev. John M. Swomley Jr., stood before the U. S. Senate's Committee on Military Affairs and argued against the draft act. Dark, intense Pastor Swomley snapped up senatorial eyebrows when he said...
This statement was the nub of a survey, "Woman's Status in Protestant Churches," published last week by the Federal Council of Churches. It was based on a questionnaire sent to 5,380 active churchwomen of eight denominations (Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, United Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker...
...pikestaff-plain chapels which Methodism's Founder John Wesley built had no organ, no steeple, no bell. Most Methodist churches are still on the bare side. But Christ Church's pastor, Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, preacher on NBC's National Radio Pulpit, is all for decoration. Says he: "In the past two decades Protestant churches have made a marked advance in the quality of their church architecture . . . with emphasis on the altar rather than on the pulpit. The theatre type of auditorium is giving way to the stately nave...
...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...
Cause of the revised regulation was presumably the anti-war manifesto which four U. S. Methodist missionaries in India sent to the Viceroy last winter. Said they, quoting Will Durant: "British ownership of India has been a calamity and a crime." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. But the British authorities wisely lay low, let the Methodist bishops in India (who rule 256 churches, 106,237 communicants) make the running by asking their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to recall Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin...