In Springfield*

In Springfield'

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."

The official utterance of the Conference on war (TIME, May 26) was a compromise. It was a perfectly pious patriotic wish for peace. There is no reason why it could not be adopted by any political or ecclesiastical party. But it was sufficient to satisfy the conscience that the Church had done something about "the war question." As such it received big space in the reviews of the Conference.

All the new Bishops were sent to foreign posts.

Changes within the U. S. are: Edwin Holt Hughes to Chicago. William E. Anderson to Boston. Adna W. Leonard to Buffalo. Wilbur Thirkield to Chattanooga, Tenn. Theodore Henderson to Cincinnati. Matthew W. Clair to Covington, Ky. Ernest L. Waldorf to Kansas City. Frederick T. Keeney to Omaha. Charles E. Locke to St. Paul. H. Lester Smith to Helena, Mont. Thomas Nicholson to Detroit. Charles W. Burns to San Francisco.

Bishops returning to their former areas are:

Herbert Welch to Seoul, Korea. . Lauress J. Birney to Shanghai. Fred B. Fisher to Calcutta. John W. Robinson to Delhi. Edgar Blake to Paris. John L. Neulsen to Zurich. William F. Oldham to Buenos Aires. Ernest G. Richardson to Atlanta. Charles L. Mead to Denver. Frederic D. Leete to Indianapolis. Robert E. Jones to New Orleans. Luther B. Wilson to New York. Joseph F. Berry to Philadelphia. Francis J. McConnell to Pittsburgh. William O. Shephard to Portland, Ore. William F. McDowell to Washington.

A last minute endeavor to substitute "Christ's Holy Church" for "Holy Catholic Church" (in the creeds) failed. It was pointed out that if Catholic was commonly misunderstood "to mean only a Church filled with bigotry and intolerance," Methodists should take greater pains to make clear that "Catholic" does not mean "Roman."

Women, headed by Mrs. Macmullen of New York, gave a "shower" to Miss Welthy Honsinger whose engagement to Bishop Fisher of Indianapolis was announced.

So they departed, remembering:

Intense reaffirmation of Prohibition.

Reaffirmation of the strictest Methodist divorce laws.

A change in the amusement law which will henceforth leave the question to individual consciences.

A denunciation of the cinema.

Unification with the Methodist Church South.

A peace wish. ^

*Springfield, Mass. /-The Conference commenced a month ago (TIME , May 12 et seq.)