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...when Massachusetts-born Dr. Smith was chief of education (63 schools, colleges and seminaries) and publications for the American Baptists, he found Sunday-school enrollments sadly sagging. He discovered that the three denominations staging the strongest Sunday-school comeback (Southern Baptist. Presbyterian and Methodist) all had summer assemblies at which youth leaders and ministers could meet. Deciding that his own denomination should have one as well, he spent two years scouring Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana for the proper setting. What he found was the 1,100-acre estate of Victor F. Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, converted...
...Egypt Methodist won its $1,000 award on the basis of five standards which were applied to all competing churches: ministerial leadership, progress in the past year, effective use of its resources, community cooperation, evidence of "world concern." But it was all summed up in the judges' words: "Because they did more with less." They expect to go on doing more. "Winning this prize has set a high standard for us to live up to," says Pastor Hathorn...
Last week 32-member Egypt Methodist was abustle to raise about $500 more to add to the prize money for the purchase of 14 new pews. "I have no fear about obtaining the money." said Pastor Hathorn confidently. "Nothing stops our women when they go after something...
...devout Methodist father had expressly forbidden him to read the book, but 13-year-old William Ernest Hocking of Joliet, Ill. could not resist the temptation. A usually obedient boy, he sneaked Herbert Spencer's First Principles out to the haymow, read with horrified fascination the book's conclusion that whatever Supreme Power might lie behind the universe, it "is utterly inscrutable." When he had finished, young Hocking realized that "father was right: the damage was done. I had started out life with a perfectly sound brand of orthodox religion. Now, I had lost...
Like cartoon characters in the comic strips, many newspaper columnists never seem to grow old. For six years the same picture of Frank Kingdon, a onetime Methodist minister, has illustrated his "To Be Frank" column in the tabloid, New York Post, it was the likeness of a mildly balding, clean-shaven man in his 40s. Last week Dr. Kingdon, 59, decided to be frank about his looks. Without warning to the readers, the Post overnight changed photographs, used a new one of a bald, bearded and much older man (see cuts...