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Speaking to some 6,000 Methodist women in Milwaukee, outspoken Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam let fly at "self-appointed patriots . . . pagan commentators . . . ignoramuses on investigating committees." Said he: "We don't intend to give up such words as 'peace, justice and brotherhood' " just because the Commies have appropriated them. "Little men whose mentality is . . . akin to the Nazi Gauleiter and the Russian commissar . . . think they are hearing something subversive when Christians speak...
...Methodist Layman Everett Mills Hosman, who has been training church ushers for about ten years, told an interdenominational meeting of church ushers in Memphis, Tenn. that "ushers can louse up the service or make it more worshipful." No good usher, said Hosman, uses strong after-shave lotion, wets his thumb when handing out bulletins, or grasps a lady around the waist or by the arm in showing her to her pew. Expert Hosman's advice on how to get people to sit up front: don't give out the bulletin right away, but use it as "bait...
...quietly amassed millions in an office labeled simply with his name and the words "Oil Operator." Smith headed Houston's swank Petroleum Club, spends much of his time and money on such civic functions as civil defense and hospitals, is No. 1 layman of Houston's First Methodist Church, the nation's largest...
...trustees of Southern Methodist University reprimanded Professor John Beaty (TIME, April 12) for publicly charging that the university was being taken over by "powerful non-Christian elements." The facts, said the trustees, "do not bear out the allegations made by Dr. Beaty...
...Northern) boomed to a record 2,581,580, the denomination's headquarters announced. Sunday-school enrollment rose by 90,834-the largest gain in the church's history-to 1,684,415. An upsurge in U.S. church life was also noted by the 45 bishops of the Methodist Church in a statement issued at their annual meeting: "Our people are attending public worship in larger numbers than we have ever known. New churches are being enterprised in every area in America and overseas . . . Giving has reached an alltime high ... A new spirit has fallen upon our people...