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Quotas by Denomination As approved by the Secretary of War on May 1, 1945.  With numbers on Army active duty as of September 2, 1945.  Quotas were based on the 1936 Census. Religious Bodies with Quotas Quota  % Quota # # On  9/2/45 Roman Catholic 30.46 2589 2278 Methodist 11.00 935 1200 Baptist, South 8.89 756 947 Baptist, Colored 7.20 612 84 Jewish 3.70 315 243 Presbyterian, U. S. A. 3.65 310 426 Protestant Episcopal 2.92 248 298 Baptist, North 2.66 226 412 Disciples of Christ 2.34 199 387 Lutheran , Missouri Synod 2.20 187 215 United Lutheran (1945 total with American Lutheran) 2.31 181 ↓ American Lutheran  2.21 179 374 Congregational Christian 2.00 170 305 Evangelical and Reformed 1.37 116 69 Latter-Day Saints 1.07 91 34 African Methodist Episcopal 0.90 77 73 Presbyterian , U. S. 0.88 75 138 United Brethren 0.73 62 60 African M. E. Zion 0.73 62 18 Churches of Christ 0.63 54 30 Christian Science 0.57 48 24 Colored Methodist Episcopal 0.46 39 10 Evangeli...

What does holiness require? I think that is the most Wesleyan way to frame the questions facing the United Methodist Church. The quest for holiness is built into our DNA. John Wesley’s Minutes of Several Conversations served as the forerunner to the church’s Book of Discipline . One of the questions posed and answered there was this: Q. What may we reasonably believe to be God’s design in raising up the Preachers called Methodist? A. To reform the nation, particularly the church, and to spread scriptural holiness over the land. Minutes of Several Conversations In various forms, this language found its way into later versions of the Book of Discipline and remains there still in the Discipline ’s historical section. The United Methodist Church’s mission statement – To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world – is a faint echo of Wesley’s sentiment, but there are substantial differences between the two. For many United Methodists, various concept...

Not that I deny, that there are exempt cases, wherein the' o'erwhelming power of saving grace does, for a time, work as irresistibly as lightning falling from heaven . But I speak of God's general manner of working, of which I have known innumerable instances; perhaps more within fifty years last past, than any one in England or in Europe. And with regard even to these exempt cases; although God does work irresistibly for the time, yet I do not believe there is any human soul in which God works irresistibly at all times . Nay, I am fully persuaded there is not. I am persuaded, there are no men living that have not many times "resisted the Holy Ghost," and made void "the counsel of God against themselves." Yea, I am persuaded every child of God has had, at some time, "life and death set before him," eternal life and eternal death; and has in himself the casting voice. So true is that well-known saying of St. Austin, (one of the noblest he ever ...