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...that very night, when confronted with the printed story, a Methodist Bishop who had suffered the entire conference in person reiterated a denial of its actuality...
...Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue to have faith in TIME. Jack Johnson was invited by the Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance & Morals, to address a conference of that body meeting in Convention Hall, Kansas City, at the time of the Methodist General Conference. Let Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue also to rely upon the reiterations of his Bishop; Jack Johnson did not officially address the General Conference...
These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four successive days with a great air of spontaneity but without lifting their eyes from the written page to God. Though extemporaneous outpourings could only reasonably have been expected from the Methodist, it was a pity, devout observers felt, that the appearance, at least, of immediate inspiration had not been affected...
...This one was a Methodist, and he wanted us 'to look to the hills for wisdom,' and here we went and nominated Charley Curtis from the plains of Kansas, where a five-foot ashheap would constitute a precipice...
Died. Bishop Luther Barton Wilson, 71, for 16 years (until retiring last month) Bishop of the New York Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, President of the Board of Foreign Missions, onetime (1901-21) president Anti-Saloon League; of heart disease; in Baltimore...