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Scandinavian Scandal. In 1924 Rev. Mr. Ingerslev, head of the Central Methodist Mission in Scandinavia, charged that Dr. Anton Bast, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Scandinavia, had fraudulently converted vast church moneys. The Methodist Conference of Denmark excommunicated the complainant. Dr. Bast was locked in jail without bail for four months until five officials of the U. S. Methodist Episcopal Church arrived in Copenhagen and got him released on bail (December, 1924). Last January the Public Prosecutor finally had him indicted on nine counts for the conversion of 635,000 kronen ($165,000). By jury trial last week he was found...
...clubs. Trials for individuals will be held Sunday morning in New York, and the 50 men chosen will have all travelling expenses paid on a tour through Europe, starting June 15 and returning in the middle of August. The trip will include stops in Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland and Scandinavia, and concerts will be given in many of the principal cities...
Before the War, Germany gave to missions as much as all other continental countries combined. But, in 1923, Germany's share of the $3,600,000 was only $30,000-most of the balance having come from Scandinavia. Approximate figures for white man and woman power...
...world where there are already established observatories; too frequently eclipses take place in inaccessible places, where astronomical equipment has to be taken at great cost which may be entirely in vain if the day is cloudy. The next four total eclipses, for example, will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes and the Harvard observatories, will be in the region of partial but not of complete eclipse...
Fact also is, that in Scandinavia and in Germany it is common custom to administer fatal doses of morphine when two or more physicians agree that a case attended with extreme suffering is incurable. But a bill to legalize this practice failed in Germany three years...