Religion: Methodists Meet

Birthplace of Methodism in the U. S. was Savannah, Ga., where John Wesley preached and Charles Wesley sang hymns in their first U. S. meeting (1736). To see relics and memorials of the Brothers Wesley this week will go 550 delegates to the Sixth Ecumenical Conference of Methodism, which opened its meetings last week in Atlanta. Held every ten years, it was the second ecumenical conference to meet in the U. S., the first to meet in the South.

Chief feature of the opening night was the appearance of Bishop James Cannon Jr., indicted...

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