Word: basting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third week of their Quadrennial General Conference at Kansas City, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church passed judgment upon Anton Bast, Bishop of Copenhagen, who was accused of unministerial, imprudent conduct. He was charged with having made personal use of funds given to him for supposedly charitable purposes. For it, he had been convicted abroad and sentenced to three months in jail by a civil court...
Despite the pleas of Bishop Bast's associates and friends, Bishop Edgar Blake of Paris and John L. Nuelsen of Zurich, the jury of 17 ministers upheld the charges, deprived him of his office. Also they agreed that a less severely penalized but more disgraceful accusation had been justified-namely, that Bishop Bast had gone on too many yachting trips with Mrs. Ellen Vedel, the wife of a Danish Government official. When informed of the verdict, which required only the expiation of an apology and which would permit him to continue as a member and minister of his church...
...addition to condemning Anton Bast, the Methodists condemned wet newspapers, wet politicians and all others who audibly oppose prohibition...
Regardless of this paper sword which swung above Bishop McConnell's liberal head, his associates elected him to head the court of seventeen ministers who would hear less frivolous charges brought against Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen, the first foreigner ever elevated to the Episcopacy. This character, it was alleged, has misused charity funds of the church, acting in an "imprudent and unministerial" fashion. Bishop Bast had been condemned, by a civil court in Europe, to spend three months in jail; nonetheless, his friends were confident that Bishop Bast's dilemma had been brought about by civil interference...
While 40 bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in annual conference at Washington (TIME, May 17), decided to revivify dry propaganda among vacillating collegians and in cottages; sent "loving greetings and prayers from your brother bishops" to Bishop Anton Bast under cloud in Denmark...