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...Bolshevist and I am not a reactionary, thank God! I am a little of both." Such was the defense and the argument of the Rt. Rev. Edgar Blake, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, for giving aid and comfort to the Living Church of Soviet Russia...
...Board of Bishops of the Methodist Church at its Fall meeting in Brooklyn had many important questions to discuss. But there was none in the long run likely to prove so far-reaching, so dramatic as the question of relations with the Russian Church. Bishop Blake had been summoned home for trafficking with the Russian Church. He faced censure for his acts and opinions, and he came off, not only without censure, but with a measure of commendation...
...inception of the matter was last Spring when the Methodist Church, at the request of the Soviet Government, appointed a board to aid in the reorganization of the Russian Church (TIME, March 3). The board was later recalled, but Bishop Blake, resident Bishop of Paris, attended in private capacity the Russian Church conference which unfrocked Patriarch Tikhon. He pledged $51,000 to that body to educate its young priests, made an address defending the Soviet Government. For these activities he was ordered" from Moscow by the Methodist Church...
...Board of Temperance of the Methodist Church told with remarkable candor its private opinion of several members of the Administration...
...meeting was called for July 19 and 20 at Wesley an Chapel (Methodist) in Seneca Falls. It was the first meeting of its kind. In those days women faced many disadvantages. Their husbands could beat them provided it was with a stick "no thicker than a man's thumb." Husbands had the sole custody of children. Except among the Quakers, women did not engage in any public activities. (For an excellent brief treatment of the situation and developments at this time, see The Nation, July...