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Many a small Protestant church is in financial difficulties. Some may have to merge with neighboring congregations. Churches which built apartments, shops, hotels during boom times find rentals dropping. Last week the Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions was $1,000,000 in debt. Unless the church finds a way to pay its debt, the Board will be wiped...
...cash in hand, had won the New York Life's permission to take the lady to Philadelphia, set her up on a tower in Fairmount Park. At least one Philadelphian was not ready to welcome the "Lady Higher Up." Rev. Mary Hubbert Ellis, pastor of the Primitive Methodist Church, had heard that the Lady was nude. "We are going to have a meeting next Wednesday," said Primitive Methodist Ellis, "to take up complaints about obscene books, nude pictures and also this Diana statue. We are going after the whole situation and we mean business. . . . Of course...
...Greater Atlanta Prohibition & Law Enforcement League began to circulate a petition for a special election to oust him. Though the League could not get one-third of the signatures required for a recall vote, Mayor Key had to withdraw from his men's Bible class at Grace Methodist Church. Thereupon he began a non-denominatiorial Bible class in a theatre where he was free to excoriate his critics scripturally...
Hymn-Writer Watts, a gentle, humorless metaphor-mixer, wrote many & many a hymn. Probably he never pictured to himself a Christian, with spotted soul under his arm, flying to the fountain as to a gory laundry. But modern Methodists, sincere as any one in accepting the allegory of the Blood Atonement, raise their eyebrows at the language in which it was couched. Currently a number of hymns by Watts and the Wesleys are slated for omission from a revised hymnal prepared by a joint commission of three Methodist Episcopal Churches (TIME, March 14). To young people they are "revolting," says...
...worldlings who make the protest. . . . The noblest young people brought up in a Christian way do not revolt from the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The fact is they hear too little of it and when they know it, they glory in it as Paul did. If this Methodist movement is the fruitage of the liberalism which is assuming more and more to manage Church affairs, the sooner we call a halt, the better...