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...topsy-turvey football season drew on, teams vanished from the unbeaten list like autumn leaves. Twice-tied Colgate was surprised by Syracuse, 31-12, while in the Southwest Conference, Arkansas switched too late from defense to offense and lost to Southern Methodist, 21-14. Remaining undefeated, untied teams: Ohio State, U.C.L.A., Oklahoma...
...Churches of Christ reported that the collection plates of 47 member churches yielded $1.5 billion in 1953-54, an increase of $136 million over 1952-53. The most generous givers were Seventh-day Adventists, with an average yearly contribution of $173.35 apiece. The next five, in order: Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, $170.39; Church of the Nazarene, $118.33; Orthodox Presbyterian Church, $112.56; Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America, $109.03; Conference of the Evangelical Mennonite Church...
...Wasteful competition between denominations. Example: Enigma, Ga. has three churches-Baptist, Congregational and Methodist. None has a regular pastor, but they will not combine...
...author and editor, William Dean Howells. When he appeared on the streets wearing shorts, a pith helmet and an air of inscrutable mystery, he was nothing less than a sensation. One of those who was dazzled was Loy Wesley Henderson, the 14-year-old son of Jefferson's Methodist minister. He was disappointed to learn that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa), but the memory of the occasion stuck. Years later, after a World War I hitch in Europe with the Red Cross...
Before the annual conference of South Africa's Methodist Church, the Rev. Joseph B. Webb, Bishop of Transvaal and Swaziland, lashed out at those "Apostles of Apartheid" in the Dutch Reformed Church who provide the Nationalist government with "gospel authority" for its persecution of the blacks. South Africa's Anglican Church joined in with an even stronger attack on two new racialist bills: one designed to take the teaching of black children out of the hands of the Christian missions, the other threatening to cancel the leases on churches whose pastors deplore Apartheid. Said Anglican Bishop Richard...