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...Methodist Episcopal: No loss, but a net gain of only 13,729 in a total membership of 5,177,467, after the total of lost members was subtracted from the total...
Author Oemler estimates the subject of her biography at his face value. Writing in the manner of fiction, she draws bold conclusions from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that...
...FRANK CRANE, 66, Manhattan; onetime Methodist Episcopal clergyman, long a journalist...
...from the windows of Avery Mission Methodist Episcopal church in the north side of Pittsburgh last week clattered sounds of shouting, crying, handclapping. A joint commission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church had recommended that the two churches fuse their organizations and their properties and call the combination the United Methodist Episcopal Church. They would be united "under a name that will be universal in meaning and not confine us to any race or country." Members of both denominations were glad. Efforts of 30 years were coming to fruition...
...fusion of the two African Methodist churches, which will take about five years to consummate, will bring under one organization approximately 1,500,000 members, 10,000 individual churches and property worth $36,000,000 in the U. S., Canada, Africa, South America, Mexico and West Indies...