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...highest policymaking body of the Methodist Church is the General Conference, which meets every four years. Last week it was conference time again, and 720 clergymen and laymen assembled in San Francisco to determine the church's objectives between...
...Conservative Methodists are anxious to curb the unofficial Methodist Federation for Social Action, which has long taken an indulgent attitude toward Communism...
...federation presented resolutions of its own to the conference, 1) attacking the U.N. war effort in Korea as "a perversion" of its purpose as a peace instrument, and censuring the U.S. as "a permanent warfare state based upon a permanent war crisis"; and 2) suggesting that a Methodist "reconciliation commission" be sent to Soviet Russia...
...investigate each of his charity employees to be sure they were worthy of help. He countered that his were not charity cases, but workers hired to do a job. When the Unitarians withdrew their support, Helms reorganized the Henry Morgan Mission. He brought it under the Methodist Church, set up Goodwill plants around the U.S., and began to hire only handicapped workers who were most in need of help. Over the years, the Goodwill ties to the Methodist Church have gradually broken, and today less than half of the Goodwill agencies in the U.S. get any financial aid from...
Unscientific Method. This is exactly what the late Edgar James Helms had in mind when he founded Goodwill Industries. In 1902 Helms, a young Methodist preacher, sent out an appeal to Bostonians for cast-off clothing to give to the poor in the South End slums. He called his drive an "enterprise of the heart," but he combined the heart with a great deal of energy and common sense. As director of the Unitarian Church's famous multidenominational Henry Morgan Mission, Preacher Helms paid unemployed workers to clean and repair the clothes, then sold them at low prices...