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...away-in August 1902, when he was 16-with a flea-bitten stock company. They gave him his first part: a 70-year-old Methodist minister in a melodrama called Jim Bludsoe...
Zions Herald has always championed the Negro. As an Abolitionist publication it was largely responsible for the secession of Southern Methodism in 1844 (Southern Bishop James O. Andrew's wife owned slaves). It has consistently protested against Jim Crowism in Methodist Church policies...
...concern for Negroes, Editor Bucke will add an equal concern for Jews. As a pastor of Hyde Park, Mass.'s Methodist Church (Hyde Park, nearby Dorchester and Mattapan have 60,000 Jews), he has worked hard in their Good Neighbor Association to promote racial and religious goodwill. His theory: "John Smith must meet Jacob Epstein and get to know him as a human being." He put his theory into practice by taking Protestant young people to a synagogue service. On his first day at the Herald, Editor Bucke had on his desk a huge bouquet from Mattapan...
Died. James Cannon Jr., 79, longtime Southern Methodist bishop, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, head of the World League against Alcoholism; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. An implacable crusader, the bishop waged a lifetime campaign against "Rome and rum." For a decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children...
...Isaac Gilman was distressed because his model town had no churches. So he dug into his pocket, gave most of the money to build the Methodist Church ($28,000) and St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church ($15,000). St. Theresa's was soon self-sustaining, but Mr. Gilman gave several hundred dollars a year to the Methodists...