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Masters in a Church. "I used to come to the Cape as a kid," says Chrysler, and I always think of the Cape when I think of vacation." Last April he bought the former Provincetown Methodist Church for $40,000, had it remodeled into a fine small museum, installed a small part of his 4,000-work collection of masters. Then he startled easygoing Cape Codders by decreeing black tie the style at his lavish parties.* He sparked the move to stage a nationwide art festival, smooth-talked some 300 year-round residents into contributing their time and effort free...
...Statue of Liberty stamp plus a penny, stuck to the envelope with Scotch tape. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Lever Bros, finished mailing 3,000,000 soap samples at a rate of 1,000,000 per day, saved $90,000. In Dallas a group of youngsters at the First Methodist Church mailed out their Saturday night program on a thousand 2? postcards, saved the church $10. In San Francisco the inscrutable Chinese lined up at post office windows on Clay Street-"China Station"-there started an inscrutable run on 3? stamps that would, on fateful Aug. 1, become as rare...
...something deep in the soul of the nation," said the Rev. William Sangster, head of home missions. "For this deep malady, we need some deep X-ray therapy that we have not found." Agnosticism, he complained, is flourishing in Britain in place of the great religious revival for which Methodists so fervently hoped. Last year the number of new Methodist church members (current membership: 739,000) fell to the lowest level in 13 years; some 100,000 children stopped attending Sunday schools. Every year, for the last twelve years, the total number of ministers has declined; it fell...
...delegates were agreed on the diagnosis, but differed on the causes. Conference Vice President John Gibbs blamed the often deplorable state of Methodist churches-"unloved places" with litter at the door, peeling paint on the windows, sturdy weeds shooting out of the rainwater gutters. But most blamed the prevailing British mood of "humble" non-positivism...
...today expects the church-Methodist or other-to say or do anything vital or relevant to human well-being?" asked retiring Methodist President Harold Roberts. Methodism appeared to outsiders to be "irrelevant in the contemporary situation," declared former President Donald Soper amid halfhearted cries of "No, No!" Insisted Soper: "I do not believe with the fervor I had 20 years ago that there is any permanence in the Methodist Church as a separate institution. Are we not seeing with the insight of a century a process which is inexorable...