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Among numerous U. S. ministers who preach by radio, Methodist Dr. William Leroy ("Bill") Stidger of Boston is notable, if only because he is a commercial broadcaster. Five days a week, on a New England network, he delivers a four-minute talk on a devotional program which plugs Fleischmann's Yeast. In common with many of his colleagues, Dr. Stidger believes that radio is valuable to religion. This week he did something practical about it. He instituted a course in radio preaching at Boston University School of Theology, where he is professor of homiletics...
...told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently he preaches on Sundays at Boston's Morgan Memorial Church, which has a Unitarian congregation but, by the terms of a bequest which gave it its property, must keep a Methodist in its pulpit...
Southeastern Conference. At Nashville, Tenn., a Vanderbilt team which had been defeated only once this season (by Georgia Tech) and had defeated such noteworthy teams as Southern Methodist, Louisiana State and Tennessee, romped onto the field to play unbeaten, untied Alabama. As the game drew to a close, it looked as if Vanderbilt and Alabama would each end the season with one defeat: the score stood 7-to-6 in Vanderbilt's favor. Then Alabama's portly Coach Thomas waved Haywood ("Sandy") Sanford, 200-lb. sophomore, into the game. The ball lay on Vanderbilt...
...pacifists have pointed warningly to the great stake of the U. S. churches in China, to the possibility that churches may be inclined to put pressure on the Government to look out for their interests, Executive Secretaries Dr. Ralph Eugene ("Diff") Diffendorfer and Dr. William Edward Shaw of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions told the Chicago meeting that Methodist missionaries "have agreed that no personal or property damage that may be incurred by their presence in China is to be made a cause for war threat or indemnity demand...
...diplomacy is quite as big a prob-lem as neutrality to churchmen. Secretaries Diffendorfer and Shaw were cautious indeed about condemning Japanese aggression in China. In the sight of God, Japanese souls are quite as good as Chinese souls, and the autonomous Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church has its own Japanese bishop and 20,000 faithful. Said the secretaries: "It must be remembered that the open sympathy of America for China and the statements and resolutions from this country arouse antagonism in the minds of many Japanese, and, as a matter of course, the position of American missionaries is made more...