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Show PROBLEMSBEFORE METHODIST BODY Six Branches of Church, Seeking Seek-ing Basis for Union, Send Delegates to Conference. Chicago, Feb. 15. Problems which confront the six branches of the Methodist Episcopal church which are seeking a basis for union, are to be discussed at a three-day conference which opened in Evanston, a suburb, today. Bishops, superintendents and leading laymen of the churches are in attendance and it was said today that they represented a church membership mem-bership of approximately 8,000,000. Most pf the discussion will be informal. in-formal. It was announced, but It was the Intention of the sponsors of the conference to collect tho data of the proceedings In book form for future reference. The entire question of church unity is to come before the next general conference of the northern north-ern church at Saratoga Cprings, N Y., in May. Discussions will embrace problems effecting church government, property iuterests and the home an dforeign missions of various kinds. Among those listed as speakers are the following: fol-lowing: Methodist Episcopal church Bishop Bish-op F. F. McConnell of Denver; Bishops Bish-ops Earl Cranston, Washington, D. C; John W. Hamilton, Boston; William T. McDowell, Chicago, and W. P Thidkleld, New Orleans; Professors Fohn Goucher, premier of Goucher college, Baltimore, Rev. David G Downey, secretary, and Edgar Blake, assistant secretary board of Sunday schools, Chicago; C. B. Spencer, Kansas Kan-sas City, editor of a church paper. Methodist Episcopal church south Bishops E. R Hendrix, Kansas City; E. E. Hoss, Nashville, and Collins Col-lins Denny,' Richmond, Va,; James W. Lee, former presiding elder of the SL Louis, Mo., district. Canadian Methodist church S. D. Chown, general superintendent. Methodist Protestant church T. W. Lewis, president. African Methodist Episcopal church Bishops Johnson, Coppin and Smith. African Methodist church in Zion Bishops Clinton and Walters. |