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Methodist Episcopal. The bishops convene in semi-annual conference only as an administrative body and to hear reports. This time they heard that Bishop Anton Bast of Denmark could not join them because pardon or reprieve from his prison was refused (TIME, March 29) ; that reports of Mexi can religious persecution were false; that England lags in restricting liquor sales in India. The conference was calm...
Scandinavian Scandal. In 1924 Rev. Mr. Ingerslev, head of the Central Methodist Mission in Scandinavia, charged that Dr. Anton Bast, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Scandinavia, had fraudulently converted vast church moneys. The Methodist Conference of Denmark excommunicated the complainant. Dr. Bast was locked in jail without bail for four months until five officials of the U. S. Methodist Episcopal Church arrived in Copenhagen and got him released on bail (December, 1924). Last January the Public Prosecutor finally had him indicted on nine counts for the conversion of 635,000 kronen ($165,000). By jury trial last week he was found...
Cambell's wrist is still lame and he probably will not play until the Princeton game Saturday. Norris will again take care of first bast, and Tuesday's batting order will be used...
...Bellamy, however is probably quite correct in assuming that the great newspaper reading public is coming more and more to insist on accurate news; even Hamiton's "great bast" can learn a little from continued experience. That readers grow irritated when they find they have been allowed or even encouraged to believe perversions of the truth is becoming increasingly evident. One great Metropolitan daily goes to the extent of having a regular department devoted, when necessary, to a correction of unintentional errors. Although it is too much to hope that a short space of five years will see a complete...
...Bishops considered Bishop Blake's defense in closed session and passed a resolution thanking him as well as Bishop John L. Nuelson of Zurich (in whose area Russia lies) and Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen for "fidelity and devotion " in carrying out "a delicate mission." No contribution to the fund of $51,000 was promised, however, nor was there any endorsement of the Living Church...