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...unChristian tempers, words or actions and imprudent or unministerial conduct" the Rev. James J. Stewart of Albuquerque was defrocked as a minister of the Methodist Church last week. His imprudent and unministerial conduct had been to bring public charges that his bishop, the Rev. W. Angie Smith of Oklahoma City, had accepted fees in the form of "love gifts" for consecrating and dedicating churches, that he had allowed preachers to solicit funds for himself and his family, and that he had even permitted the superintendent of the Methodist Indian Mission Conference to solicit Indians for gifts of jewelry, saddles, beaded...
Bishop Smith, who two weeks ago began a one-year term as the world's highest ranking Methodist, president of the Council of Bishops, was cleared of Stewart's charges by his district committee. But to the Pennsylvania-born Rev. James Stewart, 51. who won his B.D. at Yale Divinity School, Bishop Smith is only a target of opportunity in a larger campaign against what he calls a widespread practice in the Methodist Church, i.e., local ministers being expected to chip in with presents for the bishop from time to time. Love gifts from congregations to pastors-including...
...Methodist Church authorities have done their side of the dispute no good by closing doors to the public. Stewart and his 13 witnesses walked out of the proceedings at which he was defrocked when the trial committee refused to make it an open hearing...
...Wouldn't it have been wonderful [of the 1954 school desegregation ruling] if the church had led the Supreme Court? But the church didn't lead, and it didn't follow. We lack the moral courage to act." For the next two days, on the desegregated Methodist campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers and in the buildings of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, also desegregated, the churchmen sought sources of courage and plans of action...
...Case of Fire. Dr. Merrimon Cuninggim, dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, ticked off the South's "moth-eaten and decrepit" defenses of segregation (e.g., "The Negroes lack our standards in health, morality and marital fidelity"), scoffed in answer: "Then, if so, let's get to work on them. What do we do when the house catches fire, even the back room? Take a walk? . . . Most of us are getting tired of seeing ministers and laymen react as Southerners first and Christians second...