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...President Roosevelt (United States)?Bishop Edgar Blake, head of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Paris...
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, formerly of Boston and now transferred to Chicago, concluded the speech by which he concluded the Methodist World Conference† as follows: "Now we go forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God. God has given us here the vision of a warless world. Lord, we go; and as we go, we preach...
Reaffirmation of the strictest Methodist divorce laws...
Unification with the Methodist Church South...
...While Dr. Macartney at Grand Rapids was eulogizing Brooklyn the Methodists at Springfield (Mass.) assembled (TIME, May 12, et seq.), hammered out an anti-war doctrine. The strongly pacifist resolution (TIME, May 26) demanding that the Methodist Church dissociate itself from all war, offensive or defensive, was defeated. Pacifists led by Dr. Ray Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed...