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...after day last week, 900 Methodists sat in the blue leather chairs of Kansas City's big Municipal Auditorium, soberly seeking God's guidance in the building of their new, united Methodist Church. In their deliberations there was evident pride in what they were doing, and a homely pood-fellowship which transcended sectional differences. Even the Negro Question, a fearsome lurker, was accidentally hauled out of its dark corner and given a pat on the back...
Everyone applauded. Then the Conference resumed its work, which it had agreed to speed up. The delegates had voted themselves a modest, Methodist $4 per day expense money, but even that, they discovered, would exhaust their Conference treasury by May 10. Accordingly, they resolved to finish by then. Week's work...
...Uniting Conference in Kansas City's big, blue-seated Municipal Auditorium went 900 delegates: 400 ministers and laymen from the Methodist Episcopal Church; 400 from the M. E. Church South, which had seceded over slavery in 1844; 10° from the Methodist Protestant Church, which had split off in 1828. In the last three years the three churches successively ratified a plan of union. The Uniting Conference met to proclaim and exult in the merger, the biggest in Protestant history, and to deal with the many and various problems of overlapping administration. The three merging churches have between them...
...such diverse characters as radical Bishop Francis John McConnell of the late Northern church, reactionary Bishop James Cannon of the late Southern church, the Conference got under way when its co-chairmen-suave Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...
...Methodist Protestants elected Dr. Straughn and Dr. John Calvin Broomfield, onetime president of their church, as the first bishops in Methodist Protestant his tory. They, and the other active bishops* of the churches, will be assigned to juris dictions by a Conference committee...