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Died. Dr. John R. (for Raleigh) Mott, 89, elder statesman of Protestantism, Methodist layman, honorary president of the World Council of Churches and the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A., a founder in 1895 of the World Student Christian Federation, 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; in Orlando...
...ranking medical schools in the South. He has the 13th largest (1,150,000 volumes, 1,550,000 manuscripts) university library in the U.S., and though his law school is still trying to catch up, his flourishing divinity school is one of the South's principal suppliers of Methodist pulpits...
...servant in a lawyer's house. He did so well at night school that a group of businessmen sent him through college and law school. Two years after graduation he was a judge. The same year (1929) he was baptized a Christian after six years of persuasion by Methodist Missionary Samuel Wainwright and a Japanese Presbyterian. While Muto was helping to run the conquered Chinese territory of Manchukuo, he served as elder in a church there, and sometimes he worried about the difference between his two jobs. "We [Japanese] Christians made an excuse for the war," Muto explains...
...considerably better chance in the Senate than in the House. This is because the label of Universal Military Training has already attached itself to the bill and the House has been shown to be much more vulnerable to anti-UMT pressure groups. Such, for instance, is the Methodist Church, whose Board of World Peace has already come out against the bill on the basis that it is a form...
...same time to continue that relationship which is the sacrament of unity between the spouses . . ." ¶ A $400,000 Protestant Radio and TV Center was formally dedicated at Atlanta, Ga. to "its task of carrying the word of Christianity to the world." Owned jointly by the Methodist, Presbyterian (Northern and Southern), United Lutheran and Episcopal Churches, and by Emory University, Agnes Scott College and Columbia Theological Seminary, the center will send religious radio programs to several hundred stations in the U.S. as well as the Armed Forces Radio Network. ¶ Southern Presbyterians (756,886 members), known officially as the Presbyterian...