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...Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Stony Point...
When the Rev. Benjamin C. Dahnes of Mountain Home, Pa., married divorced 5?-&-10? Tycoon Sebastian Spering Kresge to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine last December, he violated no civil law. However, in the Methodist Episcopal Church is a law which says that no minister may marry a person who has been the "guilty party'' in a divorce suit. In his last divorce suit Mr. Kresge was judged a "guilty party" and did not contest the judgment. Therefore, the Rev. Benjamin Dahnes did violate a law of his Church...
Consequently, charges were brought against him. Last week after a closed-door session, the Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Conference exonerated him because he had "apologized'' and explained that he knew very little of the Kresge divorce story...
...actually am a "meddling Methodist." For instance, I would like to call his attention to the healthy growth of Christianity and compare it with the present condition of the erstwhile bloody amphitheatres of the Old Romans and the rotten civilization (?) which supported them...
...Later he said that a friend had once asked him to join the Association and through that friend he had forwarded his resignation. "We all do some things for friendship," he explained. Mr. Lamont's friends in Chicago were amused. Said Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals: "We Methodists believe in repentance." Said F. Scott McBride: "We always welcome converts." ¶ In Philadelphia detectives arrested two Negro youths for wearing corsets within which were fastened hot water bottles containing whiskey. The charge was illegal transportation. ¶ One of Mr. Lament...