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Show FILIPINO PREACHER SURRENDERS CREDENTIALS Manila. March S. Nichoes Zamora. the Filipino preacher who has caused a split in the Methodist Episcopal church In Manila and planned the organization or-ganization of an Evangelical Method-I Method-I 1st church of the Philippines, snrren-. snrren-. dered his credentials today to the reg-I reg-I ular church and began the formation j of his followers into an organized j body. He 1s fololwed by at least a l thousand members of his former con-j con-j gregatlon. The extent of tho chasm ; in the established Methodist church is las yet undertennined. but it is e I-i I-i dent that 'the majority of the Filipino ' I leaders will remain loyal to the reg- ; ular church. The Presbyterian organization in the islands is not affected by the new movement, although it Is reported that ' the dissenting Methodists ate trying to create division In that church, also. I |