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...Methodist Williams intended his New Testament for the mission field, but, said he, "I now find that it can be of use also in this country among those who left school...
...Pain. Barkley's candidacy and withdrawal will not damage the widespread affection in which he is held. His age has only mellowed the robust geniality that has always been his political stock in trade. He combines a strong Methodist sense of personal honesty, loyalty and principles with a belief that U.S. politics is a process of compromise rather than an instrument of doctrinaire philosophy or a weapon of personal ambition. And he discovered early in the game that a sense of humor could ease the process for everybody, including Alben Barkley...
Virginia's conservative Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 65, has controlled his state for 27 years-ever since he won the governorship back in 1925 and wrested control of the rural Democratic machine from Bishop James Cannon Jr., chairman of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Since World War II the Senator has had a lot of criticism and competition. In 1946, a Richmond lawyer named Martin A. Hutchinson ran up a startling 82,000 votes (against Byrd's 142,000) in the senatorial primary; in 1949, wellborn; Colonel Francis Pickens Miller...
Chiang, member of the Methodist Church since his conversion to Christianity in 1930, rises at daybreak, and before breakfast will have said his prayers and spent a half-hour in meditation, usually with Madame Chiang, in his private chapel. When interviewers ask the inevitable question about returning to the mainland, Madame Chiang answers: "With faith, there is nothing in the world that cannot be accomplished...
Died. The Rev. James Shera Montgomery, 89, chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives for 29 years (until 1950); in Washington, D.C. A familiar figure at congressional funerals, weddings and baptisms, he prided himself on never repeating a prayer. Before a full Easter congregation in Washington's Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, he once said: "I know some of you won't be back until next Easter, so let me wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...