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...badly damaged kidney after a collision between his milk truck and a bus. Newhouse himself was a Witness, as was his wife, so there was little likelihood that a court could step in. Newhouse's father (no Witness), his mother (a practical nurse), a Methodist minister, a rabbi and dozens of friends tried to talk him out of his stand. They failed. A transfusion, he argued, would mean "spiritual death...
...Francisco, the General Conference of the Methodist Church wound 1 its business for another four years. In tv weeks the delegates had managed squeeze most of the controversy out of tl 1,500-odd recommendations before ther A survey commission's drastic proposa for streamlining (and centralizing) chun organization were reduced to smoothii out only a few of the more unsight bulges. By & large, the church's old cumbersome administration stayed that...
...major recommendation of the surve got through. An official Board of Social ar Economic Relations was set up, to get in the field now dominated in the church t the unofficial, embarrassingly left-wir Methodist Federation for Social Actk (TIME, May 5). The delegates also askc that the federation remove the wor "Methodist" from its title...
Bishop Corson had strong views on tw other matters: 1) U.S. relations with th Vatican, and 2) a Methodist merger wit the Protestant Episcopal Church. Presider Truman, said the bishop, "set back th movement of religious cooperation 75 year by his injection of the Vatican issue." A for the Episcopalians, there is no chance of a merger so long as they insist that Methcdist ministers must be first re-ordaine by Episcopal bishops. Said Methodist Coi son: "If the Episcopalians want union, a they need to do is declare John Wesley de facto bishop...
...deep down, it would hardly have mattered that she was so prim & proper on the outside. In the North Carolina of the 1880's, where a lady wore her skirts to the ground and refused a suitor twice before deigning to accept him, Ora bounced solemnly after the Methodist minister, pretending to be engrossed in good works, but caring mainly about his looks. Preacher David Humiston found Ora's trim figure as attractive as her piety but, as he sententiously declared, he could not take a wife until God had prompted his hand. When...