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...strangely warmed" by a feeling that through Jesus Christ he had been saved. The warming of John Wesley, two centuries ago, gave Methodism to the Church of England, which was not impressed. Wesley remained an Anglican, but his movement grew outside the Church, flowered in America, where the first Methodist bishop was consecrated in 1784, and where Methodist circuit riders followed the frontiers as they spread westward...
Homely is the Methodists' ritual, firm is their belief in salvation by faith alone, practical is their application of faith to their personal lives. Most of the world's 12,000,000 Methodists live in the U. S. Last week was a big week for them. By reuniting three branches of Methodism, separated for nearly a century, U. S. Methodists set up the largest Protestant church in the nation. Name: the Methodist Church. Membership: nearly...
...last week, Clark Gable got into his cream-colored roadster, picked up Carole Lombard and drove 350 miles east to Kingman, Ariz. There they bought a license from an awestruck clerk named Viola Olsen, and proceeded to the home of a Methodist Episcopal minister named Kenneth M. Engle. In the presence of his wife and a high-school principal named Cate, who later defined their behavior as "lovey-dovey," Mr. Engle made Clark Gable and Carole Lombard man & wife. Gable wore blue, Lombard grey...
Typical signers: Manhattan's Congregationalist Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers; Baptist Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; Episcopal Bishop Paul Jones of Yellow Springs. Ohio; United Brethren Bishop Arthur Raymond Clippinger of Dayton, Ohio; Quaker Clarence E. Pickett of Philadelphia; Methodist Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston...
Manhattan's conycatchers used to do a profitable business in selling City Hall, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park to innocent strangers. Last September in Harlem, an innocent and querulous Negro Methodist named Rev. Davis Frazer, preaching in a shop for which his congregation was growing too large, let it be known that he was in the market for a church. Two strangers approached him, told him they were agents for a bank which had a fine, large church for sale, price $96,000, on the installment plan. Parson Frazer paid $22.50 down, was told that it would...