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...never occurred to Ophthalmologist William B. Small of Waterloo, Iowa, a prominent Methodist layman, that the answer might be difficult. When he died in 1939, his will directed that the income from $75,000 of his estate should be distributed "to persons who believe in the fundamental principles of the Christian religion and in the Bible and who are endeavoring to promulgate same." When his wife died in 1949, ten nephews and nieces sued to break the will. Their argument: "There is no common agreement as to what constitutes the fundamental principles of Christianity...
...hearings got under way in Waterloo. The first four witnesses spoke for the trustees. The Rev. Charles S. Hempstead, district superintendent of the Methodist Church, Dr. Russell D. Cole, president of a nearby Methodist school, and Methodist English Professor Miron A. Morrill all testified that a Christian can be defined as one who believes in the Apostles' Creed, e.g., the Trinity and the Divinity of Christ. Methodist Layman Stephen A. Cohagan, a longtime friend of the dead man, testified that this was what Dr. Small himself believed...
...reason, however, was the difference in the quality of play between the two games. Army and Dartmouth played like two fair college teams. Notre Dame and especially Southern Methodist--which won, 27 to 20--looked like two strong professional teams. They ran their plays off quickly and efficiently, tackling fiercely, and blocking with a minimum of pushing and shoving...
...guest preacher at Oklahoma City's St. Luke's Methodist Church last spring, Peters offered a plan of his own. Over & above U.S. Government aid to underdeveloped countries, he said, there ought to be a voluntary, Christian Point Four program. It would express the charitable love of Christians as no government program ever could. Said Peters: "The only way to defeat Communism is to outlive, out-love, out-serve and out-die it . . . This is the hour when we need to rise and show what...
...Bible records that when St. Paul got his call to "come over into Macedonia and help us," he set out "immediately." Nowadays, preachers are apt to be more wary. Here are some of the points St. Paul would have raised, says the Rural Church Department of Drew Theological Seminary (Methodist), if he had been like a lot of his 20th Century successors...