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...strength did not last for long. As he grew feebler, his old friend, Methodist Episcopal Bishop John Newman, who had finally managed to baptize him three months before, tried to persuade him to take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note...
...American Activities Committee. California's Donald L. (for Lester) Jackson touched off the talk with a 70-minute defense of Velde's statement that some churchmen and church organizations might be investigated. After all, said Jackson, there are some clergymen like Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, a critic of the Velde committee, who "has been to the Communist front what Man o' War was to thoroughbred racing .. . Having served God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week over such a long period of time, it is no wonder that...
Substitution. In Lake Geneva, Wis., members of the Methodist Church Adult Fellowship dropped a scheduled discussion of "The Women-What Should Be Done About Them and How Do We Go About It," instead talked about "The Devil...
...Methodist prelate, who was called a Communist sympathizer two weeks ago by a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, then proceeded to criticize the Committee for retaining adverse and untruthful information against persons in its files. "It is the duty of the church to see that false witnesses are brought to the attention of our people...
Pfeiffer directed the 1928-29 excavations at Nuzi, Iraq, conducted by the Harvard-Baghdad School. A noted Biblical scholar, he was pastor of the Methodist Church in Sanborn, N.Y., from 1916 to 1919 and editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 1943 to 1947. In 1950 he served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis...