Word: methodistically
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...conferring upon an ordained Methodist minister "episcopal orders" [Dec. 21], Bishop Pike has implemented the only hopeful method to achieve the next major objective in church union-mutually recognized ministerial standing among the various Protestant churches. It is based upon the assumption that the orders of any particular church, however "valid" are "incomplete," since they represent only a fraction of the total tradition and riches of Christendom...
...incompleteness" in the orders of the Methodist church applies to the orders of all churches, including Bishop Pike's Protestant Episcopal church...
...bishop stands in need of reciprocal admission to the riches of the great Methodist tradition. If he is consistent, he will apply to the Methodist Bishop of California for parallel admission to the orders of that church...
...Maine (15 votes), an endorsement of Kennedy by Governor Clinton Clausen before his death (TIME, Jan. 11) was posthumously made public, warmly seconded by Maine's Democratic congressional delegation, led by U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie, a Catholic. In Maryland, Governor J. Millard Tawes (Methodist), under almost as much Kennedy pressure as Mike Di Salle, reluctantly agreed to commit his state delegation (24 votes)-at least for the first ballot-by letting Kennedy run uncontested in the May primary...
...Baltimore, Methodists celebrated the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Methodist Church in America. At the Lovely Lane Church, named after the "meeting house" where the historic "Christmas Conference" took place, 289 Methodist pastors and wives assembled for a week-long reenactment of the founding. All were under 35, in commemoration of the youthfulness of the 83 circuit-riding preachers who organized the Methodist Church under Francis Asbury...