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...Philadelphia's steaming Convention Hall and nearby Franklin Field, 5.000 Methodist delegates from all over the world celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley...
Tonga, England soon learned, is an archipelago of probably 200 islands about 1,400 miles south of the equator. Captain Cook called there in 1773, named them the Friendly Islands, and presented the Tongans with a tortoise, which is still alive. Methodist missionaries arrived in 1822 and converted the king to Christianity. Queen Salote's father voluntarily accepted British protection in 1900. Tonga is the only remaining independent monarchy in the Pacific. It has its own parliament, cabinet, privy council, passports, stamps, currency, laws and language, and is the only self-governing kingdom within the British Commonwealth...
...patient admitted to Houston's Methodist Hospital on New Year's Eve was 46, a county sheriff by occupation and a fine figure of a man. But for months he had had such severe pains in his back and belly that he had to be given opiates several times a day. Drs. Michael E. De Bakey and Denton A. Cooley found from X rays that the sheriff had a massive aneurysm of the descending aorta-an enlargement of the great artery which carries blood from the heart to the abdomi nal organs and the legs. The aneurysm, formed...
...Methodists and Baptists. Northern and Southern Methodists merged with the Methodist Protestant Church in 1939 to become the Methodist Church (present membership: 9,065,727). U.S. Baptists are still talking about unity, but have not yet achieved...
Lawrence, an Episcopalian, said later that he would have preferred granting the property to members of his same faith, but since the Methodist sect was the frontier religion, they could make better use of it. Lawrence was careful to insure, however, that the College would not be denominational and forbade "propagating the tenets of any sect." In 1932 the College severed all remaining religious bonds with the Methodists, so that while religion continues to be a prime force on the campus, it is more than ever non-denominational...