Word: ingerslev
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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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...