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...thirds of the world's 12,000,000 Methodists live in the U. S. Last year their three main U. S. branches-Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Protestant Church-merged to form the nation's biggest Protestant church. Fortnight ago united Methodism met at Atlantic City for its first general conference. The 776 delegates and their thousands of camp followers met morning, noon & night, spent small time even on mild amusements, though godly Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan, a delegate for the last 32 years, roller-chaired down the boardwalk with delegates from India...
...Urged passage of laws to require premarital medical tests, recommended that Methodist parents instruct their children before adolescence "on the origin of life and the nature of their personalities as it relates...
...Decreed that henceforth Methodist ministers must be college graduates, have theological training...
...Decided that Methodist candidates for the ministry need no longer answer aloud Founder John Wesley's famed "soul-searching" examination, which contains such questions as "Are you in debt?", "Are you going on to perfection?" and "Do you expect to be made perfect in love in this life?" The questions will still be asked but aspirants may answer them "silently...
...divorce, TIME was in accord with standard histories (The Cambridge History, The New Larned History, etc.). Because it regards itself as a part of the universal Catholic Church (the final break taking place after Henry's time), the Anglican Church claims succession from the Apostles. Actually the Methodist Church, founded by John Wesley, might make a similar claim, since it in turn split from the Anglican Church...