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Perhaps the most exciting thing that heavyset, slack-jowled George Zook ever did was propagandizing in World War I under George Creel. A Methodist and ex-Rotarian, he taught history at Pennsylvania State College, spent eight able but unspectacular years as president of Ohio's University of Akron. President Roosevelt named him U.S. Commissioner of Education in 1933. One year later Zook resigned to take the A.C.E...
This week's issue of the Methodist Zions Herald applauded: "The FCC has done a profound service to freedom of religion. . . . One of the basic rights that must not be disturbed is the right to achieve for oneself a satisfactory conception of God. To safeguard that right, the church must recognize and defend the right of an individual to disbelieve either in partner completely...
This rose-colored view of a divided Christendom comes from an ex-British, China-born Methodist minister who teaches economics, preaches sermons, and performs marriages at California's Mills College. From behind his usual king-sized cigaret, short, russet-haired Dr. George Hedley last week explained his double job: "You see, the Dean of Chapel at Mills is a layman, so he couldn't perform marriages. I am an ordained minister. . . . When I first came ... in 1940 the Dean of Chapel and I made an arrangement. He taught one of my courses and I gave half the sermons...
...series of sermons, Preacher-Professor Hedley asked the students what they wanted to hear, learned they were most puzzled by the differences between the major sects of Christianity. Hedley's resulting sermons boosted chapel attendance about 25%. As he described each sect, Methodist Hedley did his best to approximate its ritual; i.e., for his sermon on Quakers he took down decorations and cross, sat in a business suit in the front...
Published in book form, as The Christian Heritage in America (Macmillan; $2), the sermons provide an informal, quickly read handbook of U.S. sectarianism. Methodist Hedley comes close to toppling over backwards in his effort to play no favorites, to find and set forth the essential good in every splinter of Christianity. But the effort is well made and to better purpose than merely striving to please. In opposition to those who would force all Protestants into a Procrustean bed of "unity" (as the Christian Century's fiery Charles Clayton Morrison would), Author Hedley sees no innate evil in sectarianism...