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...Alabama Governor John Patterson's recent endorsement of Jack Kennedy for 1960 came the first dark imprints, looming ominously for any Catholic candidate. The Alabama Baptist, noting that Patterson did not speak for a majority of Alabamans, pronounced Kennedy hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy. And the Methodist Christian Advocate, official mouthpiece of Alabama's Methodists, denounced Patterson, conceded that Kennedy was a good man but that "the people of Alabama ... do not intend to jeopardize their democratic liberties by opening the doors of the White House to the political machinations of a determined, power-hungry Romanist hierarchy...
...Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant in Germany, brother Eugene works for the Hackensack (N.J.) Board of Education...
...schedule of morning services is as follows: Tuesday, June 30: William Y. Elliott; Wed.-Fri, July 1-3: the Reverend Daniel C. Whitsett, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church; Mon.-Tues. July 6-7, Dr. Dana M. Cotton; Wed.-Fri., July 8-10, George A. Selleck, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Wed., July 13-15, The Reverend James R. Blanning, United Ministry to Students; Thurs.-Fri., July 16-17, The Reverend Ronald D. Maitland, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues. July 20-21, Professor H. Anderson; Wed.-Fri., July 22-24, Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues., July...
Thus among the countless traumas a freshman may fall heir to an agonizing struggle in Hum 5 or Phil 1 with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Theology is certainly one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Methodist in those ordeals--and for one reason or another, Anglicans defect at the rate of one out of every four. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress: one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies...
...pollsters, and in their freshman year, the Class of '34 was asked to designate not only their religious faith, but also their choice of career. In striking contrast to today, a fifth were Episcopal, a sixth "Hebrew," a sixth Roman Catholic, a tenth Congregational, a tenth Presbyterian, a twelfth Methodist, and another twelfth Unitarian...