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...which held its first assembly at Amsterdam in 1948. Meanwhile, in various countries around the world, the ecumenical idea was beginning to snowball. In some cases, actual organic unity proved possible. Since 1900, some 30 U.S. denominations have merged into a third as many-notably the Northern and Southern Methodists and the Methodist Protestant Church, whose merger in 1939 made the Methodist Church the largest (currently 8,900,000 members) united Protestant church in the U.S. But the two most ambitious experiments in union took place in other lands. In 1925 Canada's Methodists, Congregationalists and most Presbyterians merged...
...National Council's constituting convention elected Bishop Sherrill its first president, they did not pick a veteran wheelhorse of the ecumenical movement. Nor were they singling out one of the sparkplugs of U.S. Protestantism-a barrier-breaking theologian like Reinhold Niebuhr or a hard-hitting polemicist like Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. They were simply picking the best...
...learned doctor has analyzed the anti-popery porter [and found it produces] a disposition to bowels particularly lax, an inclination to pravity and to singing praises of the Lord through the nose." The trouble was, he said, that Guinness had its porter makers "mash up stereotype Protestant Bibles and Methodist hymn books . . . thus impregnating, in the act of fermentation, the volatile parts of the porter with the pure ethereal essence of heresy...
...Catholic catechism condemns liberalism and the freedom of the press, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the Methodist Church declared last night at the spring's third Law School Forum. Debating the subject "Public Aid to Parochial Education," Bishop Oxnam opposed such Federal aid on the grounds that it would drive a divisive factor into American unity...
Speakers will include Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, Bishop of the Methodist Church in the New York area, James M. O'Neill, Professor of Speech at Brooklyn College and prominent Catholic layman, Dr. Vincent A. McCrosson, professor of languages at Boston College, and Dr. George Hunston Williams of the Harvard Divinity School...