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...finally I came across three pages which lifted my feeling of despair. TIME'S Religion department assures me that there is still reason to hope. Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
Maybe it's my Calvinism cropping up in me, but I think we've already begun to lose the peace. In some places it's indifference. In others, like that Methodist church out in Michigan, they adopt the 20th Century version of crucifixion-getting rid of their pastor when he speaks the truth as he sees it [see below...
...Bethune's school merged with the Methodist Cookman Institute (for Negro boys...
...family to visit the wild Montana Territory, Alma was her last choice-but each of the others was afraid to venture into the country of cowboys & Indians. Nineteen-year-old Alma took the chance and stayed to teach, first in public school, later in Salt Lake City's Methodist seminary. When she wanted to preach as well, shocked Methodists told her to marry a preacher...
After marrying Methodist Minister Kent White, she occasionally took over his pulpit. But ecclesiastical authorities failed to share her congregation's enthusiasm for Mrs. White's preaching, and in 1901 she organized her own sect. Eventually Preacher White's followers took the name "Pillar of Fire" from the title of a bulletin she published...