Monday, Jun. 02, 1924
Methodists
War. 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 to the draft of military service unless Capital and Labor were simultaneously drafted. Said Dr. Gray: "If the Government comes to my parsonage door and takes my two sons, sends them to foreign lands to fight in mud and give their lives, I am not going to stand aside and see the laymen of Wealth and the laymen of Labor profit."
three times, the conference voted to elect five Bishops, not three. After 14 secret ballots, it finally elected:
George A. Miller, who became head of the work in Central America after long experience in South and Central America and the Philippines.
Titus Lowe, who was born in England, has served in the U. S. and in Calcutta, and is now Secretary to the Board of Foreign Missions.
George R. Grose, President of De Pauw University.
Brenton T. Badley, who was born in India of missionary parents, was Professor of English in Lucknow College, is Secretary of the Centenary Movement in India.
Wallace E. Brown, pastor of University Church, Syracuse, N. Y.