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...Methodist Quadrennial General Conference, 850 delegates, including every Methodist Bishop in the world except three, met at Springfield, Mass...
Heard Bishop Nicholson of Chicago, head of the Anti-Saloon League, advocate that no Methodist workers be henceforth sent to Columbia University for training...
...Union with the Methodist Church South. This has been agitated ever since 1845 when the Church split because a Baltimore parson refused to free his wife's slaves...
...Divorce. (No divorcee can be remarried by a Methodist minister except the innocent party in a case of unfaithfulness...
That university undergraduates and high school students are extremely critical and even impatient of the ministry has been well illustrated by the replies received to a questionnaire recently broadcasted by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Two of the main questions asked were "What do you think of ministers in general?" and "How can the ministry become more efficient?" Among the most illuminating responses were remarks to the effect that "there are too many men in the ministry who are narrow minded and unprogressive"; that ministers "are not meeting present day problems with present day thinking"; and finally, that "the sentimental rather...