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...busy riding Michigan's Epworth League circuit that he could no longer get back to Charlotte on Sundays, pious ex-Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson (81) announced regretfully that he would have to give up the Bible Class at the Center Eaton Methodist Church over which he had presided regularly for 55 years-never more regularly than when all he had to do was run Michigan...
Regional planning for Protestant churches got its first big boost last week. The starting point: two able reports on population shifts and religious needs around Philadelphia, made at Allentown, Pa. to the annual Methodist Conference for the Philadelphia area. Impressed, the delegates from the conference's 322 churches and missions voted a ten-year, $250,000 program by way of starter...
...reports were authored by the Rev. W. Vernon Middleton, pastor of Philadelphia's Covenant Methodist Church and secretary of the Philadelphia Missionary and Church Extension Society, and Dr. W. Galloway Tyson, who spoke for the conference's four district superintendents. Keynote-that oldtime revival-service vangelism is not enough-was struck by Minister Middleton. Said...
...church must study the city as a total picture and plan accordingly," said Dr. Tyson. Primarily urban and suburban in scope, the plan will also cover the country districts. Dr. Tyson reminded the 700 conference delegates that 76% of U. S. Methodist pastors and 65% of the 8,000,000 Methodist membership are in rural charges...
Zions Herald, 118-year-old Methodist weekly, last week ably stated the case against praying to be seen...