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The Durant News
Durant, Holmes County, Mississippi
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Bishop W. Angie Smith opens the 1948 Methodist Hour radio broadcast series with a sermon on 'The Power of God for Salvation' on April 4 at 8:30 EST over 65 stations. The 13-week series on Jesus' teachings is sponsored by Southern religious conferences and features professional music.
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Bishop W. Angie Smith, resident of the Oklahoma City Area, will open the 1948 series of The Methodist hour broadcasts with a sermon on "The Power of God for Salvation." This broadcast will be given Sunday morning, April 4, at 8:30 Eastern Standard Time. It will be heard over an independent network of 65 radio stations, the largest network ever used on any periods of broadcast sponsored by the Southern Religious Radio Conference. This Conference is composed of the radio committees from the Southern Baptist Convention, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S., and the Southeastern and South Central Jurisdictions of the Methodist Church.
Music for these broadcasts will be by The Methodist Hour Choir, a trained group of professional singers who are spiritual in their approach and deeply interested in the quality of music given on these programs. The choir is under the direction of John D. Hoffman and George Lee Hamrick is the organist.
This year the theme for all of the 13 broadcasts will be "The Teachings of Jesus and the Present Scene." All of the sermons will deal with a definite teaching of Jesus and a specific problem of human life. An attempt will be made to interest all people possible in the Christian way of life and to bring the teachings of Jesus to the masses of the people.
The first speaker, Bishop Smith, has recently returned from a trip to India where he represented the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church and it is expected he will speak from the viewpoint of world-wide Methodism and the universal need for personal salvation.
The Methodist Hour is produced and directed by Rev. James W. Sells. These programs are sponsored by the South Central Jurisdictional Council, Dr. Paul D. Womeldorf, Executive Secretary and the Southeastern Jurisdictional Council. Dr. William F. Quillian. Executive Secretary. Speakers for these programs were selected by the Joint Radio Committee of the Methodist Church, of which Bishop Paul E. Martin, Little Rock, Arkansas. is chairman and Dr. E. H. Blackard of Gastonia, North Carolina, is secretary.
The Joint Radio Committee is composed of one representative from each Episcopal Area in the two Jurisdictions.
The Methodist Hour may be heard in this area over station WSLI a Jackson and WGRM at Greenwood each Sunday morning.
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Bishop W. Angie Smith will deliver the opening sermon for the 1948 series of The Methodist Hour broadcasts on April 4 at 8:30 EST over 65 radio stations. The series theme is 'The Teachings of Jesus and the Present Scene,' with 13 sermons addressing Jesus' teachings and human problems. Sponsored by the Southern Religious Radio Conference, including Methodist jurisdictions, with music by The Methodist Hour Choir directed by John D. Hoffman and organist George Lee Hamrick. Produced by Rev. James W. Sells, speakers selected by the Joint Radio Committee chaired by Bishop Paul E. Martin.