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...after finishing his course at the local Methodist mission's primary and secondary school, young Moise was sent off to nearby Kanene to win his degree at the Methodist teachers college. He even took a correspondence course in bookkeeping. A gregarious, gay fellow, Moise seemed less interested in commerce than in good times and cars-one big Ford particularly impressed the local girls. The lad first had a go at running the family firm in Elisabethville, the big city itself, then branched out with a group of village stores of his own. But his ventures collapsed...
...Roman Catholic Mass, the Protestant Reformation emphasized the preaching of God's word in sermons at the expense of sacramental worship. This emphasis was heightened in the U.S., argues Lutheran Brown, where "the development of Protestantism in the 18th and early 19th centuries was primarily that of the Methodist and Baptist kind of fervent expression of religion.'' Even in churches with strong liturgical traditions-such as the Lutherans and Episcopalians-hymns placed more emphasis upon individual piety than on praise of God. In church architecture, the pulpit replaced the altar as the focus of congregational interest...
...liturgical times is restoration of Communion services to a central place in the order of worship. At the Redford Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Communion is now monthly instead of four times a year; the church is considering whether to make the service weekly. At the Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, the congregation recently asked their pastor to offer Communion every Sunday, instead of once a month. Many Lutheran churches have revived the sung "German Mass," according to the original ritual of Martin Luther. The Rev. Franklin Senger of Washington's Holy Comforter Church uses plain chant...
...Campbell College sums up the problem. Campbell's shabby plant is no match for the average Northern high school. For its 300 mostly country-raised students, Campbell boasts a library of 3,000 books. It operates on a budget of $131,000, about half provided by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. For the rest, says President Robert M. Stevens, "we just have to do a lot of hustlin'." Now gifts are vanishing. Campbell is solidly behind civil rights agitation in the nearby town of McComb. Says Stevens wryly: "I could raise half a million in no time...
...This assembly was far more dynamic than Amsterdam in 1948 or Evanston in 1954," said Manhattan Lawyer Charles Parlin, the Methodist layman who will serve as one of the Council's presidents. "It has been an extremely serious, united effort of giving directives for work." The Council's General Secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft (TIME cover, Dec. 8), agreed that "we have received pretty clear marching orders," although, he added cautiously, "some of them will have to be worked out a little further...