Methodist Misfits Endorse Integration Sparks Mississippi Debate
A Mississippi preacher criticizes a controversial January 1963 Methodist Advocate article by Bertist C. Rouse arguing against integration. Letters claim to defend biblical purity while urging church resistance to change and warning of a “fallen” church if foundations break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ Jesus
Mississippi
Methodist Church
Sam E. Ashmore
Mississippi Methodist Advocate
Brother Ashmore
Mississippi Conference
Jesus
Bro
Ashmore
Bertist C. Rouse
Dixie Methodist Church
Hattiesburg
Galloway
Jackson
No Trust in the Russians and Call for Disarmament
A public service piece argues we cannot trust Russians with nuclear power and urges disarmament. It cites Kennedy, Bradley, and MacArthur, asserting the current balance of terror is naive and could end in disaster.
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Kennedy
Bradley
MacArthur
Letters on convictions and race in Mississippi church views
Readers respond to a editorial notice on religious conviction and segregation. One letter denounces using faith to justify racial separation while citing Jesus teachings on love and Genesis 1 26 28 to refute biblical grounds for segregation.
Notice to Subscribers Correcting Mailing List at Hattersburg paper
The newspaper announces a thorough mailing list cleanup since 1953 with a staff effort to fix errors. Readers who do not receive a paid issue are urged to contact via P O Box 1486 Hattersburg Mississippi, Commercially P. D. East.
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P.O. Box
Hattiesburg
Miss
P. D. East
Sermon on Christian Love Denounces Color Bar in Church
The speaker urges voluntary desegregation of public facilities and warns that race prejudice weakens the nation. He emphasizes that God’s house must be open to all and critiques those who seek color bars in Christian institutions. He notes subsequent illness as divine retribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Selah
Jesus
God
Galloway Methodist Church
House of God
Christ
Methodist Church
Selah
Paul
Silas
Born of Conviction Letter Supports Segregation Stand
Rev Roy Wesley Wolf of Mo Belle Mississippi replies to The Mississippi Methodist Advocate article Born of Conviction. He argues the piece favors integration and defends segregation, urging church leaders to speak for Truth and Freedom and signaled by twenty eight ministers.
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Bertist C. Rouse
Roy Wesley Wolf
Brother Wolf
Ralph McGill
P. D. East
Rev. Rouse
Mississippi
Mississippi Methodist Conference
Victoria J. Gray
Palmer Crossing
Sam E. Ashmore
Mississippi Methodist Advocate
Mo Belle
Miss
Bro. Ashmore
Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Church
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East Side
Elizabeth Burroughs
Jesus Christ
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