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...done by Aaron and Hur that day should be an inspiration to U.S. laymen. So thought greying, conscientious Principal Harold Dressel of the Northrup Elementary School at River Rouge, Mich. When the new pastor of his church complained of the indifference of laymen in the congregations he had known, Methodist Dressel remembered Moses' helpers...
...Adam Poe knocked on every door in Delaware, Ohio, until he had begged enough money to buy the town's unprofitable stagecoach inn. To the Methodist minister, little Delaware, 20 miles north of Columbus, seemed like the perfect site for a Methodist college...
Three months ago, when the prelates of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral read his statement in the New York Times, they decided that Composer Harris, who describes himself as "a shouting Methodist," had shouted a bit too loudly. St. Pat's had planned to perform Harris' new Mass for Men's Voices and Organ on Easter Sunday. The plans were dropped...
...BOSTON, delegates to the Methodist Quadrennial Conference (TIME, May 10) temperately responded to Bishop Oxnam's ringing call for Christian unity by establishing a "Commission on Church Union" to consider specific proposals. They also adopted a resolution which 1) denounced war as unChristian, 2) urged an attempt at understanding with Russia, and 3) disapproved universal military training. Other decisions: against admitting women preachers to equal standing with men; to raise the church's Public Information budget for the next four years (from $106,000 to $300,000); to spend up to $240,000 on an efficiency survey...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...