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Bill Taft: “I like to think of Methodism among the denominations as an affirmative, aggressive, pushing, practical church militant.”

On the recordDecember 12, 1909
I like to think of Methodism among the denominations as an affirmative, aggressive, pushing, practical church militant.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at a Mass Meeting in Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Methodist Episcopal Missions in Africa at Carnegie Hall...

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