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Slavery split the Methodist Church. The regeneration of religious power in the United States today may unite...
Back in 1843, two Georgia clergymen married wives who owned slaves. They were promptly accused by the Methodist Conference of New York State of contravening the doctrines of their church, and were found guilty by the Baltimore Conference that same year. Thereupon all the Conferences of the Methodist Churches in the southern states seceded and formed " The Methodist Episcopal Church, South," which has endured until now. They held that slavery was a civil and not a religious issue. During the Civil War, Lincoln said of the Methodist Church in the North that it " sent more soldiers into the field, more...
Many attempts at reunion since the Civil War have failed. But the Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in Des Moines, in 1920, appointed a committee on reunion, and asked the Southern Methodists to do the same. The two committees have worked out a plan which will abolish the word " south" from " Methodist Episcopal Church, South," incorporate the two branches of the church into one legal body, appoint one General Conference, and two Jurisdictional Conferences, one north and one south. The General Conference is to be supreme...
Fred Stone, comedian: "After being snowed in for a week on a train in Dakota, I bought a Bible at Billings, Montana, and joined the Methodist Church at Butte. I promised one-tenth of my income for Christian work...
Bishop Nuelsen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who recently returned from Russia, reports that the Soviet no longer interferes with the worship of any sect that does not oppose the government. Three Methodist Episcopal bishops will go to Moscow in April to present the social creed to the government for approval and to cooperate in working out the destinies of the badly disorganized Russian Church...