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...Taian, near Tsinan (see p. 18) an unidentified Chinese war bullet entered the bedroom window of Mrs. William T. Hobart, a U. S. Methodist Mission worker and resulted in her death...
...Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist Churches of Canada ceased being separate organizations and became the United Church of Canada (TIME, June 22. 1925). The unification was not unanimous nor was it accomplished without wheezings and cries from minority separatists...
...there were thousands sitting in the balconies, looked up at windows which were illumined by hidden lights. An electric cross was hung in a high arch and in a western balcony, near the invisible organ, sat 65 choristers. This was the opening of the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As well as the 40 bishops, there were present 875 delegates from 35 nations representing some 15,000,000 communicants...
Later, Bishop Luther Wilson got up to read the Episcopal address whose substance had been prepared by the Board of Bishops but whose clear and strident phraseology was in large part his own. In this, there was a reprimand that applied to Dr. Sloan and exemplified the admirable Methodist point of view on the evolution bugaboo: "If the preacher assumes to answer every adversary of Christianity he will make the place a battlefield instead of a sheepfold...
...Kresge is a devout Methodist...