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...Bertrand M. Tipple was in charge of the American Methodist Church and College, which overlooks the Vatican, as early as 1910 when the late Theodore Roosevelt visited Rome. The Methodists have always been at loggerheads with the Vatican. Because Roosevelt called on the Methodists, he was refused an audience with the Pope...
...Tipple's resignation was accepted last week by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church. Dr. Frank M. North, in presenting the resignation, reported: "There are political conditions which need not disturb us greatly. But there are ecclesiastical conditions which may definitely disturb us. The position and plans of the Collegio Internazionale (Methodist International College) are centers of agitation. But both in Italy and the United States there are steady supporters of the enterprise, and the purpose to develop the school sanely and surely upon its present site is unaltered...
...asked that the Methodist Church officially support his stand, and that it contribute to the fund of $51,000 that he had promised to the Russian Church...
...time, speaking of the sorry case of Russia and other European countries he held up a roll of depreciated currency, once worth $325,000,000, now worth $2.95, and declared : "If I had had this wad ten years ago, I assure you, gentlemen, I would not have been a Methodist clergyman...
...Methodist Bishops had officially offered support to the Living Church, or reorganized Russian Church, they would have directly opposed the attitude taken by the American Protestant Episcopal churches. The Episcopalians have favored that faction of the Russian Orthodox Church which upheld Patriarch Tikhon whom the other faction, or Living Church, unfrocked...