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...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...
...union and other men to cry them down. Yet last week, at the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being held in Kansas City, a resolution was introduced to effect not merely the long-discussed union with the Methodist Episcopal Church South but also with Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. This resolution was passed unanimously by the Committee on the State of the Church; when presented to the entire congress of Methodist potentates, it was passed again by a vote of 852 to 3. The proposal concerned 55,000 pastors, 60,000 churches, 35,000.000 human souls...
Tsining is the seat of a hospital and school maintained by the United States Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Last week, details finally emerged as to the recent murder of Hospital Superintendent Dr. Walter F. Seymour (TIME, May 7). It appeared that when Nationalist troops took Tsining recently on their victorious march to Tsinan (see above) a group of Nationalist soldiers rushed for the women's dormitory of the mission school with intent to possess themselves of its occupants. When kindly Dr. Seymour sought to bar the dormitory door with his slender body the soldiers shot him down...
...Jeffrey Hale hospital, Quebec; word was flashed to New York. The New York World and the North American Newspaper Alliance, sponsors of the flight, immediately telephoned Dr. William H. Delaney, superintendent of the hospital, suggesting a consultation, which was gratefully accepted. Dr. Alvan L. Barach, assistant physician at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, was sent up as consultant, arriving in Quebec with his special apparatus and two tanks of compressed oxygen, Monday, April 23. Bennett's condition was very grave. A large part of the left lung was already involved, the right lung was also affected. In Canada...
Died. Dr. Walter F. Seymour, 65, head of the Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsining, China; from a shot through the heart fired by a Chinese Nationalist soldier; in Tsining...