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Last August the Reader's Digest published an article co-authored by Methodist Zelley about the victim of a train wreck who, given almost no chance to live, rallied to eventual recovery while his church congregation was praying for him. The flood of mail that resulted opened Zelley's eyes to the fact that vast numbers of ordinary churchgoers were being deprived of the "healing touch of Christ...
...theory before he graduated in 1918. After serving overseas in World War I, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's law school, became a prosperous lawyer, was president of the Cook County Bar Association in 1941-42. One of the leading U.S. laymen in the Methodist Church, Republican Wilkins has been serving as vice chairman of the presidential committee seeking to eliminate racial discrimination in plants with Government contracts...
Wilkins and his wife, who is recording secretary of the Women's Division of Christian Service, a Methodist organization, have three remarkable sons...
...California's Sixteenth District (west Los Angeles County), Republican Representative Donald Lester Jackson faces trouble. A member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, Jackson last year said that Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam "has been to the Communist front what Man o' War was to thoroughbred horse racing [serving] God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week ..." Recalling that comment, the Rev. S. (for nothing) Mark Hogue, minister of the Westwood Hills Congregational Church, announced that he is going after the Democratic nomination for Jackson's seat. Said Candidate...
...Sort of Simple Charm." The 100-odd newsmen who assembled to meet him in a gloomy Methodist meeting hall in Westminster came ready to perform on him an expert British drawing-and-quartering. But Billy got in the first few thousand words. "I am here," he explained, "because I was invited to come. I am not here for your money . . . I'm not going to preach antiCommunism, anti-socialism or anti-liberalism ... I have come to preach Christ...