Word: methodistically
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...heeled wheat-grower, was just about the most prominent man in the region. He was chairman of the Kansas Conference of Farm Organizations and Cooperatives, a former member of the federal Farm Credit Board, a civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from hope into brick. His wife Bonnie was active in the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service. The Clutters' well-behaved, teen-age children, Kenyon and Nancy, were popular, straight-A students at the local high school. Both were scheduled to receive 4-H awards...
...Kipling and Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, whom he loved in his boyhood. In an age when public men tend to hedge their affirmations, he speaks out forthrightly for such notions as "the integrity of the dollar" and the value of individuality. A devout, Bible-reading Methodist, he last year kept a speaking date by unabashedly reading a 200-line poem he had composed to remind his audience that...
...local image from stone-hearted colossus to soft-hearted rich uncle. In Vernon, Texas, where his office was, Anderson headed fund-raising drives, got each drive off to a fast start by contributing a chunk of Waggoner funds. With Anderson's help, Vernon got a $1,000,000 Methodist church, a municipal auditorium, a recreation hall for teenagers, a Boy Scout camp...
Last week Bhengu was busy in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Whites jam-packed Salisbury's Methodist Hall to hear him tell them, in precise English, what was wrong with white Christianity: "The greatest dangers in Africa today are Communism and Islam. Both offer the African equality. The churches are divided. There are too many, and their different dogmas and doctrines are too confusing for Africans. Christianity has failed in India and China because Christians have failed to live up to Christ's teaching, and in Africa it's proving an empty shell for the same reason. If Christians...
...Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed Church in America), LeSourd's editorial superior on Guideposts; in Leesburg...