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...Manhattan, a Methodist-Epis- copal bishop of Parkersburg, W. Va., landed after touring England, France, Holland, Belgium. Said he: "They are a godless people for the most part, particularly in France, which has always been the heart of infidelism. Instead of being in church on Sunday, they are out on picnics or riding in automobiles seeking pleasure...
...attacks of his political enemies are something Mr. LaFollette will receive in due course, but why should he be attacked by the Methodist Church? Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Temperance and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, answered that question last week in addressing a camp meeting at Spirit Lake, Iowa. Said he: "We are to be congratulated on the high ideals of both platforms and the character and loyalty to Government in- stitutions that the four men who are running in the major parties stand for. You could not get a poor President...
...plan for union of the two branches of the Methodist Church, which was almost unanimously approved by the Northern Church at Springfield, Mass., (TIME, May 19), was accepted by the General Conference of the Southern Church at Chattanooga, last week. Opposition led by Bishop Collins Denny was violent, but union received the necessary two-thirds majority on the first and only ballot, 297-75. Ratification by districts will follow shortly. The plan for union provides for two separate general jurisdictions- South, North. Opponents of the plan failed to get large support because the plan would seem to be, for practical...
...month after the Methodist month of religious carnival at Springfield, Mass., the Executive Committee of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions assembled in Manhattan to fight the grim reality of a deficit. The Board was $2,225,000 in debt. The proposal to reduce its missionary work by 25% was promptly rejected. What to do? Up stood Dr. L. O. Hartman, Editor of the onetime Zion's Herald. He proposed that every member of the Board should give his gold watch to the cause. Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch...
...causes of immorality. A thorough search of a file of The Monitor failed to disclose that that paper made any mention of the speech on the following day. On the second day, a little three-inch article appeared, on the fourth page of The Monitor, saying that a Methodist had challenged Dr. Butler to present his views before the Methodist General Conference, and added that Dr. Butler had been "quoted in press dispatches," after which followed a brief quotation. The same day it published an editorial attacking Dr. Butler's views. Several days later, The Monitor published the news...