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...keynote of Christian unity was struck, and ringingly struck, by New York's Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam, in the Episcopal Address. The Episcopal Address, prepared and delivered by one bishop, but edited and initialed by all of them, is a kind of party platform. It indicates the position of the Church's leaders and the direction of the Church's thought. As Bishop Oxnam's address showed, that position is advanced, the direction forward...
...speech took Bishop Oxnam, standing short and solid on the stage of huge, dismal Mechanics Building, two hours to read. He reviewed Methodist gains since the General Conference of 1944 ($27,011,243 raised for world relief and reconstruction; a record one-year gain of 1,063,734 new members). He restated the traditional Methodist stand against "the liquor traffic" and its "advertisements that seek to associate whiskey with success rather than with the gutter." He deplored the growing tendency of Methodist-founded universities and other institutions to break away from their church affiliation. Then he came to the main...
Easter Services (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC Television). Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen...
...assure the maintenance of the American principle of separation of church and state." President of the new group is Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, Baptist president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. V.P.s are the Christian Century's Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, and Dr. John A. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary...
...other pastors: Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton, Northern Baptist Edwin T. Dahlberg, Disciples' W. E. Garrison...