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Fred P. Corson, D.C.L., bishop and president of World Methodist Council...
...congregation in the small Methodist church in Harlem listens attentively as the special Sunday speaker approaches the end of his sermon. He tells them that the church needs money, and that they can help if they come to the Freedom National Bank and deposit their money there. The bank will use the accounts as collateral. Against this collateral it will issue the church fathers the mortgage on the church which they have been refused because of an alledged shortage of mortgage funds...
...Administration viewed the bill as a pragmatic token of encouragement to the increasingly self-assertive, outward-looking nations within the once monolithic Communist bloc. And while Methodist Mills airily dismissed the need for such a gesture, a dramatic "independence" speech by Rumanian Boss Nicolae Ceausescu pointedly underlined the urgency behind a scheduled fence-mending mission to Bucharest by Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (see THE WORLD...
Union Under Way. Particularly crucial to the future of the C.O.C.U. will be the attitudes of the Episcopalians and Methodists. Under pressure from their Anglo-Catholic wing, the Episcopalians might well refuse to give Consultation delegates the power to negotiate a union plan. Methodist commitment to the union could collapse on many issues, such as whether bishops would have the power to appoint pastors. At Dallas, Methodist delegates acknowledged the justice of such fears but pointed out that, as the largest church involved, Methodism has most to lose from the union...
...Blake's original proposal, made at Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike's Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, was for a union of his own United Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ. Since then, the Disciples of Christ, the Evangelical United Brethren, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Southern Presbyterians have become full partners in the Consultation...