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...Methodist will be held in the Church dining room, while the Communion the main sanctuary of the church. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who is to be host at the dinner, will preside at the Communion...
...Among them: Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and President of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Dr. Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, Moderator of the Congregational Christian Churches; Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Secretary of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops; Roman Catholic Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Robet E. Lucey of San Antonio; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, President of the Synagogue Council of America...
Commission members include Methodist Theologian Georgia Harkness, Union Seminary's Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Harvard's William Ernest Hocking, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, the International Missionary Council's Abbe Livingston Warnshuis, the World Council's Henry Smith Leiper, Industrialist Harold Hatch, ex-President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke. Secretary and spark-plug is Dr. Walter Van Kirk, of the Federal Council's Department of International Justice...
Methodist. Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops: "Last spring the Methodist General Conference took the stand that 'the Methodist Church will not officially support, endorse or participate in war.' This is a more strongly pacifist attitude than would be taken by the majority of ministers today. . . . Large numbers [now] believe the future of Christianity itself is related to the defeat of this new religion of totalitarian force...
Into a microphone in Omaha, Neb. last week, Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam read the ritual of Holy Communion. In 1,500 churches in Nebraska and Iowa, loudspeakers broadcast those words while 50,000 Methodists knelt and partook of the Lord's Supper. Bishop Oxnam explained that this broadcast, first of its kind, would enable Methodists to take Communion in small outlying churches whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened...