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Show INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP Methodist Church Shows Growth of 1,500,000 in Four Years. CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-One million five hundred thousand converts have been made. by the Methodist, Episcopal church during.' the four years of the twentieth century thank offering movement. move-ment. This is the spiritual accomplishment accomplish-ment to be placed in' church annals alongside of the $20,000,000 for benevolence benevo-lence raised through the same movement.. move-ment.. The announcement was made in the Northwestern Christian Advocate, published pub-lished today, the figures being based on reports of the probationers admitted to the church. ' |