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That is what the award said, presented by the Emory University Town & Country School to the Egypt Methodist Church, which won out over 1,329 competing churches in 13 states. Until last year, Egypt Methodist had only 14 members. They had no building of their own, but met with the Baptists (membership 43) and listened to Baptist preachers. Then the Methodists got two more members. Galvanized by this shot in the arm, they set out to get a preacher of their own and a church...
When a former Methodist churchman named J. B. Matthews made the charge that U.S. Protestant ministers "are the largest single group supporting" Communism in the U.S. (TIME, July 13), he was hit by thunderbolts of protest. They forced him to resign as executive director of Joe McCarthy's Senate subcommittee, and showed clearly that U.S. Protestants trust their clergy. But they threw little light on J. B. Matthews himself. In last week's Christian Century, Editor Paul Hutchinson, who once "knew him well and . . . liked him greatly," writes an account of him, in order to show "what strange...
Joseph Brown Matthews began his career about as far away as possible from the Washington limelight-as a Methodist missionary in Java. He was a brilliant linguist, but his sympathy for Indonesian nationalists made him unpopular with the islands' Dutch masters as well as executives of his own mission. Back in the U.S., he studied at several seminaries, then joined the faculty of Scarritt, a training college for Methodist church workers in Nashville, Tenn. He was forced to leave because of his liberal views. Recalls Hutchinson: there was a "furor over an interracial party held in his home...
Married. Dr. John Raleigh Mott, 88, 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., and a 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; and Agnes Peter, 73, great-great-great granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington; he for the second time (his first wife, Leila White Mott, died last year), she for the first; in Georgetown...
...bishop called Jackson a liar, and demanded that the committee give him a public hearing. It agreed, and last week Methodist Leader Oxnam vigorously attacked the committee members face to face during six long hours of verbal combat, before hundreds of applauding fellow churchmen. The bishop said the committee methods gave rise to a "new . . . Ku-Kluxism," and flatly denied any sympathy whatsoever with Communism. He also denied belonging to a good part of a long list of front organizations about which committee members questioned...