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While 40 bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in annual conference at Washington (TIME, May 17), decided to revivify dry propaganda among vacillating collegians and in cottages; sent "loving greetings and prayers from your brother bishops" to Bishop Anton Bast under cloud in Denmark...
While clergy and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in quadrennial conference at Memphis, Tenn. (TIME, May 17), considered a constitution to replace their restrictive regulations of government; considered buying a tuberculosis hospital at Tucson, Ariz...
...Methodist Episcopal. The bishops convene in semi-annual conference only as an administrative body and to hear reports. This time they heard that Bishop Anton Bast of Denmark could not join them because pardon or reprieve from his prison was refused (TIME, March 29) ; that reports of Mexi can religious persecution were false; that England lags in restricting liquor sales in India. The conference was calm...
...Methodist Episcopal, South. The general conference is legislative and judicial. Last week the lay and clerical delegates hoped for a sedate session, but occasionally broke up into opinionated wrangles. An attempt to railroad through a stiff fundamentalist resolution caused the noisiest row. The resolution was pocketed in committee. Prohibition was approved, theatres damned. At one session the 2,000 delegates paused to pray that "peace and brotherhood be restored to England...
...John Wesley founded U. S. Methodism by his visit to Georgia in 1735. In 1784 the Methodist Episcopal Church took form. In 1845 slave-owning Methodists of the South established the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Although recent years have witnessed some comity between the two branches, regional prejudices have prevented unification. They exchanged fraternal greetings last week...