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...Methodist Minister Hutchinson (with a D.D. from both DePauw and Garrett Biblical Institute) joined the Century in 1924, after five years as editor of the China Christian Advocate in Shanghai, and ever since has been showing journalists what a minister can do in their field and ministers what a journalist can do in theirs. He has had his share of globetrotting; his reports on Europe and other matters in LIFE, the Saturday Review and other magazines made him known to many readers who never even see a copy of the Century. His crisp, forceful editorials, his continued analysis...
Florida). When her father explained, she remarked: "Since you've been governor, what we've needed is a lieutenant daddy." A Matching Program. Thomas Le-Roy Collins' grandfather, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, came to Florida from Texas around 1870, died in a pulpit near Tallahassee. The governor's father ran a small grocery, later a wholesale grocery business. He did not have enough money to send his children to college, but he promised to match, dollar for dollar, whatever they earned and saved. "He was years ahead of Roosevelt," says Governor Collins, who deals these...
...shabby office, "before him a large pile of $1,000 U.S. Government bonds, and he was clipping off the coupons. That face! Like a hungry boy taking into his mouth a ripe cherry, or a mother gazing down into the face of her pretty sleeping child." To a Methodist preacher, Reese once said: "My love of money is a sort of insanity, but it is as good a form of madness...
Other voices in the land were equally stern. The contemplated marriage, said an Episcopal minister in Scotland, would be "an illicit union . . . adding something very like the sin of apostasy to the violation of Christ's marriage law." The head of Britain's Methodist Conference granted the Princess' right to marry a divorced man. but he was no less firm than the Anglicans in denying Margaret and her prospective issue the right to ascend the throne...
...Lone Star, Texas this week, the Lone Star Steel Co. will open a new $40,000 building where the company will make no steel, transact no business. The building is a chapel. There, a fulltime, specially trained Methodist chaplain will spend his time primarily offering aid and counsel to troubled workers. Similar pastor-counselor or devotional programs are fast spreading to dozens of other U.S. corporations. Next week in Cleveland, a prime topic at the National Council of Churches meeting will be the new industrial chaplain. The Northern California Council has already drafted a program to spread the gospel...